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Site Info - Bbc.co.uk

Overview of web technologies used by Bbc.co.uk.

Website Background

BBC - Homepage
Breaking 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 57 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United Kingdom37%7
United States13.6%88
India4.6%117
CityVisitorsCity Rank
London, GB6.6%5
New York, NY, US1.3%90
Los Angeles, CA, US1.1%92

Main visitors locations

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

JavaScript

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

Flash

Glow is a JavaScript library developed by the BBC.

Glow

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages.

HTML

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

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

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

GIF

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

External CSS

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

Inline CSS

A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.

Strong ETag

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression
(used until recently)

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

GlobalSign

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

Apache

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

Full Circle Studies

Omniture Web Analytics is a web site traffic analysis service. Its products include SiteCatalyst, WebSideStory and Hitbox.

Omniture

INFOnline is a German Internet audience measurement services.

INFOnline

Effective Measure collects data on website audience.

Effective Measure

Nielsen NetRatings is a web site visitor tracking service provided by The Nielsen Company.

Nielsen NetRatings
(used until recently)

AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is an advertising network.

AudienceScience

United Kingdom

.uk

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 Score474261
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries00
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities403049
Web Servers628143
Traffic Analysis Tools461082
Advertising Networks45685

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