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Site Info - Britannica.comOverview of web technologies used by Britannica.com. Website Background Encyclopedia BritannicaExplore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Description on Homepage Encyclopaedia Britannica OnlineProvides complete text of Encyclopaedia Britannica with search capabilities, related links, and multimedia enhancements. Full text for subscribers only; free trial available. Description from Alexa 14 June 1995 Online since Number 5,318 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. JQuery 1.9.1 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. 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. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations. 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. Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser. Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years. HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security. Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat. Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. Thawte is an SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec. Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache 2.2.22 Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This contains Unix and Unix-like system, such as Linux. The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites. KISSmetrics is a website analytics solution that provides visual representations of conversion funnels.
Casale Media is an advertising network. Commercial entities 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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