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Site Info - American.edu

Overview of web technologies used by American.edu.

Website Background

American University Washington D.C. | Schools, Colleges, Undergraduate, Graduate, Admissions, Academics, Degrees, Faculty
American 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

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States59.3%9,942
India10.6%41,866
Germany2.1%125,137
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Washington, DC, US22.4%654
New York, NY, US6.3%9,753
Delhi, IN3.9%19,970

Main visitors locations

CommonSpot is a content management system based on ColdFusion, developed by PaperThin.

CommonSpot 6.2.1.16
(33% of sites use a newer version)

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

ASP.NET

ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, and developed by Adobe Systems.

ColdFusion

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.

JavaScript

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

JQuery 1.7
(30% of sites use a newer version)

Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.

Prototype 1.6.0.2
(86% of sites use a newer version)

Transitional version of XHTML.

XHTML Transitional 1.0

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF

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.

PNG
(used until recently)

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

External CSS

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

HttpOnly Cookies

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

GlobalSign

The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft-IIS 7.5
(2% of sites use a newer version)

Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google.

Google Analytics

United States educational institutes

.edu

English

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.

TotalPopularity TrafficVersion
Technology Score58585369
Content Management Systems4516767
Server-side Programming Languages514457
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries63965242
Markup Languages586749
SSL Certificate Authorities403049
Web Servers62404898
Operating Systems535948
Traffic Analysis Tools718952

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