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Site Info - Cnn.com

Overview of web technologies used by Cnn.com.

Website Background

CNN.com International - Breaking, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment and Video News
CNN.com International delivers breaking news from across the globe and information on the latest top stories, business, sports and entertainment headlines. Follow the news as it happens through: special reports, videos, audio, photo galleries plus interactive maps and timelines.

Description on Homepage

CNN - Cable News Network
News, weather, sports, and services including e-mail news alerts and downloadable audio/video reports.

Description from Alexa

22 September 1993

Online since

Number 72 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States64.9%20
Canada4.2%39
India3.2%248
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US4.9%21
Los Angeles, CA, US4.8%27
San Francisco, CA, US2.8%22

Main visitors locations

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

ASP.NET
(used until recently)

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java
(used until recently)

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

JavaScript

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

JQuery 1.7.2
(used until recently)

Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.

Prototype
(used until recently)

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

Script.aculo.us
(used until recently)

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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

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

Facebook

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Chartbeat

AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is an advertising network.

AudienceScience
(used until recently)

Commercial entities

.com

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 Score595959
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
Markup Languages606653
Social Widgets678053
Web Servers493959
Traffic Analysis Tools42877

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