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Site Info - Flickr.com

Overview of web technologies used by Flickr.com.

Website Background

Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Description on Homepage

Picture galleries available with chat, groups, and photo ratings.

Description from Alexa

22 November 2003

Online since

Number 77 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States27.5%36
India5.8%64
United Kingdom5.4%26
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US2.9%33
Los Angeles, CA, US2.7%34
San Francisco, CA, US1.6%34

Main visitors locations

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

JavaScript

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

Flash

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a JavaScript library developed by Yahoo.

YUI Library 3.7.3
(1% 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

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

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.

Cookies expiring in years

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

Yahoo Traffic Server is a web server by Yahoo.

Yahoo Traffic Server 1.19.11
(version 1.20.20 used until recently)
(1% of sites use a newer version)

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a free web analytics solution by Yahoo.

Yahoo! Web Analytics

Yahoo Advertising offers a range of advertising solutions, including Right Media.

Yahoo Advertising
(used until recently)

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 Score58395799
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries57145999
Markup Languages606653
Web Servers4954499
Traffic Analysis Tools461180

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