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Site Info - Kotaku.com

Overview of web technologies used by Kotaku.com.

Website Background

Kotaku - The Gamer's Guide
Kotaku is the definitive digital hub for video game news, reviews, cheats, design, and entertainment.

Description on Homepage

4 March 2002

Online since

Number 1,584 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States50.9%661
United Kingdom5.6%1,028
Canada3.8%878
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US5.6%565
New York, NY, US5.2%582
San Francisco, CA, US3.3%544

Main visitors locations

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
(used until recently)

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

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

Entrust

Verizon is an IT service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority, primarily via its acquisition of Cybertrust.

Verizon
(used until recently)

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

Facebook

The Google +1 button allows visitors to recommend web pages to friends.

Google +1
(used until recently)

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter
(used until recently)

StumbleUpon Badges enable visitors to submit content to StumbleUpon.

StumbleUpon
(used until recently)

Tumblr buttons make it easy for Tumblr bloggers to share content on their blogs.

Tumblr
(used until recently)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache
(used until recently)

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

Full Circle Studies

Parse.ly is a web analytics service for large publishing sites.

Parse.ly

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google.

Google Analytics
(used until recently)

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast
(used until recently)

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic
(used until recently)

Gomez offers web performance and user experience monitoring tools, owned by Compuware.

Gomez
(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 Score585561
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities401664
Social Widgets668051
Traffic Analysis Tools481185

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