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Site Info - Discovermagazine.comOverview of web technologies used by Discovermagazine.com. Website Background Discover Magazine: The latest in science and technology news, blogs and articles Description on Homepage Science news, articles, current events and future views on technology, space, environment, health, and medicine. Description from Alexa 19 June 1997 Online since Number 17,809 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations Plone is an open source content management system written in Python on top of the Zope application server.
Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework. ASP.NET 4.0.30319 Python is a general-purpose scripting language.
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. ASP.NET Ajax is a JavaScript library based on ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft. Transitional version of XHTML. 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. HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security. Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.
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. A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site. AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies. The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft. Microsoft-IIS 7.0 Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.
Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft. 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.
Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.
AdSense is the publisher part of Google's 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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