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Site Info - Buzzfeed.com

Overview of web technologies used by Buzzfeed.com.

Website Background

BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has the hottest, most social content on the web. We feature breaking buzz and the kinds of things you'd want to pass along to your friends.

Description on Homepage

Number 363 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States58.6%96
United Kingdom5.6%215
Canada4.6%145
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US8.1%58
Los Angeles, CA, US6.2%80
San Francisco, CA, US4%71

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
(used until recently)

Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.

Prototype

Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library based on the Prototype JavaScript framework, originally developed by Thomas Fuchs.

Script.aculo.us 1.9.0
(0% of sites use a newer version)

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

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

Go Daddy is an IT service provider, amongst others operating as SSL certificate authority. This includes ValiCert certificates, now operated by Go Daddy.

Go Daddy
(used until recently)

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

Facebook

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

Apache 2.2.17
(38% of sites use a newer version)

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu

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

Google Analytics

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

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

Full Circle Studies

Gravity Insights is a web and conversation analytics solution for forums and community websites.

Gravity Insights

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick

AppNexus is an online advertising platform.

AppNexus

Commercial entities

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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 Score62635581
Client-side Programming Languages7510051
JavaScript Libraries562345100
Markup Languages596553
Social Widgets658050
Web Servers62794462
Operating Systems382848
Traffic Analysis Tools879085
Advertising Networks534067

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