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Site Info - American.eduOverview of web technologies used by American.edu. Website Background American University Washington D.C. | Schools, Colleges, Undergraduate, Graduate, Admissions, Academics, Degrees, FacultyAmerican University is a leader among Washington DC universities in global education. American University enrolls a diverse student body from throughout the United States and nearly 140 countries. Description on Homepage Official university homepage. Description from Alexa 3 June 1991 Online since Number 31,530 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations CommonSpot is a content management system based on ColdFusion, developed by PaperThin. CommonSpot 6.2.1.16 Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework. ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, and developed by Adobe Systems. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. JQuery 1.7 Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson. Prototype 1.6.0.2 Transitional version of XHTML. UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.
External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file. Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page. Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute. Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month. HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security. Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat. GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority. The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft. Microsoft-IIS 7.5 Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. United States educational institutes Technology Score The technology score rates a site based on its technologies in a range from 0 to 100. It consists in a popularity score (how many sites use the same technologies), a traffic score (how much traffic have other sites using the same technologies) and a version score (how many sites use more recent technology versions). Quality alerts also affect the rating.
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