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Site Info - Digg.com

Overview of web technologies used by Digg.com.

Website Background

Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now
The most interesting and talked about stories, videos and pictures on the web. Breaking news on Technology, Politics, Entertainment, and more!

Description on Homepage

Technology focused news site where the stories are chosen by community members rather than editors.

Description from Alexa

20 February 2000

Online since

Number 730 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
India30.7%241
United States23.4%779
Indonesia4.1%383
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Delhi, IN4.6%202
Bombay, IN3.3%259
New Delhi, IN3.1%208

Main visitors locations

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 1.8.3
(version 1.8.2 used until recently)
(2% 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

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

GIF

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
(used until recently)

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

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

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

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

Twitter

Tornado is an open source web server and web application framework written in Python, originally developed by FriendFeed (now owned by Facebook).

Tornado 2.3
(version 2.2 used until recently)
(48% of sites use a newer version)

The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

Google Libraries API

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

CDNJS

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

Google Analytics

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

Chartbeat

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 Score67725975
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries82965198
Markup Languages606653
Social Widgets545453
Web Servers4317752
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749652
Traffic Analysis Tools839077

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