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Site Info - Inhabitat.comOverview of web technologies used by Inhabitat.com. Website Background Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Description on Homepage Discussing the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design. Description from Alexa 27 May 2000 Online since Number 8,328 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL. PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages. 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. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. JQuery 1.7.2 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. Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page. 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. Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat. Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends. The Google +1 button allows visitors to recommend web pages to friends. A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site. The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest. The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. 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. Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks. AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network. DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google. Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft, formerly called Aquantive and also including Atlas Solutions. 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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