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Site Info - Ask.com

Overview of web technologies used by Ask.com.

Website Background

Ask.com Web Search

Description on Homepage

Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search and shopping.

Description from Alexa

20 October 1998

Online since

Number 33 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States25.2%20
Japan7.7%24
India6.3%37
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US2%24
New York, NY, US1.7%32
Tokyo, JP1.3%33

Main visitors locations

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

Strict version of HTML.

HTML Strict 4.01

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

UTF-8

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

GIF

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

JPEG
(used until recently)

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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours

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

Cookies expiring in months

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.

Cookies expiring in years

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies

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

Non-Secure Cookies

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

Facebook
(used until recently)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache

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

Google Analytics

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies

Commercial entities

.com

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 Score667657
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries749651
Markup Languages351259
Web Servers628044
Traffic Analysis Tools859080

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