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Site Info - First-draft.comOverview of web technologies used by First-draft.com. Website Background FIRST DRAFTAthenae, Jude & Adrastos Description on Homepage 5 July 2003 Online since Number 1,391,985 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank TypePad is an online blogging service provided by Six Apart. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a JavaScript library developed by Yahoo. 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. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. ShareThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. 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. Site Meter provides counter and tracking information for web sites. AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network. Blogads is a blog advertising network by Pressflex. 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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