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Site Info - Google.com

Overview of web technologies used by Google.com.

Website Background

Google

Description on Homepage

Enables users to search the world's information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers unique features and search technology.

Description from Alexa

15 September 1997

Online since

Number 1 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States29.3%1
India9.1%1
Russia3.3%5
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US2.8%1
New York, NY, US2%1
Delhi, IN1.2%1

Main visitors locations

Python is a general-purpose scripting language.

Python

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

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

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

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
(used until recently)

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 month and 1 year.

Cookies expiring in months

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

Cookies expiring in years

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

HttpOnly 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

The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides amongst others a vastly larger address space than the preceding version 4. We consider a website to support IPv6 if a 128-bit addresses is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.

IPv6

SPDY (pronounced speedy) is a web protocol developed by Google, that is likely to form the basis for HTTP 2.0.

SPDY

GeoTrust is a SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec. This includes SSL certificates issues by the certification branch of Equifax, which was acquired by GeoTrust.

GeoTrust

Google Web Server (GWS) is the web server that Google uses for their web infrastructure.

Google Web Server

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 Score534759
Server-side Programming Languages40575
Client-side Programming Languages7510051
Markup Languages596653
SSL Certificate Authorities525253
Web Servers371263

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