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Site Info - Bbc.co.ukOverview of web technologies used by Bbc.co.uk. Website Background BBC - HomepageBreaking news, sport, TV, radio and a whole lot more. The BBC informs, educates and entertains - wherever you are, whatever your age. Description on Homepage The BBC Homepage - Your gateway to BBC Online Description from Alexa 13 December 1994 Online since Number 50 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Glow is a JavaScript library developed by the BBC. HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages. 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. Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. Omniture Web Analytics is a web site traffic analysis service. Its products include SiteCatalyst, WebSideStory and Hitbox. Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns. Nielsen NetRatings is a web site visitor tracking service provided by The Nielsen Company. AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is an advertising network. United Kingdom 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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