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Site Info - Examiner.com

Overview of web technologies used by Examiner.com.

Website Background

Welcome to Examiner.com | Examiner.com
Get the latest news and articles on topics that interest you - from our team of local insiders.

Description on Homepage

The Examiner
A breaking news and local information website. Covers cities, states and the nation, with localized channels for major cities in the United States.

Description from Alexa

13 September 1994

Online since

Number 543 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States68%200
India6.5%851
Canada3%468
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US5.7%178
New York, NY, US4.8%261
San Francisco, CA, US3.3%190

Main visitors locations

Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

Drupal

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP 5.3.19
(version 5.3.10 used until recently)
(18% of sites use a newer version)

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

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

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

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

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

Entrust is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

Entrust
(used until recently)

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

Facebook

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

Nginx 1.0.15
(version 0.7.65 used until recently)
(49% of sites use a newer version)

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

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

Chartbeat

BlueKai collects website visitor data and provides it to advertisers.

BlueKai
(used until recently)

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

Gravity Insights
(used until recently)

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick

Casale Media is an advertising network.

Casale Media

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 Score62665767
Content Management Systems372649
Server-side Programming Languages73894782
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries739651
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities463656
Social Widgets668051
Web Servers50405951
Traffic Analysis Tools859080
Advertising Networks543968

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