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 41 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

Country	Visitors	Country Rank
United Kingdom	41.1%	6
United States	14.8%	71
India	4.7%	84

City	Visitors	City Rank
London, GB	10.2%	7
New York, NY, US	1.8%	53
Los Angeles, CA, US	1.7%	54

Main visitors locations

Server-side Programming Language

Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted language, nowadays also used to create web pages.

Perl

Client-side Programming Languages

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~~
(used until recently)

Javascript Library

Glow is a Javascript library developed by the BBC.

Glow

Markup Language

Strict version of XHTML.

XHTML Strict 1.0

Character Encoding

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

UTF-8

Web Server

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

Apache

Traffic Analysis Tools

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns.

Full Circle Studies

Advertising Network

AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is an advertising network.

United Kingdom

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