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Site Info - Leeds.ac.ukOverview of web technologies used by Leeds.ac.uk. Website Background University of Leeds Description on Homepage Official site. Description from Alexa Number 18,789 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages. Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. JQuery 1.6.2 Transitional version of XHTML. Transitional version of HTML. 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. External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file. Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser. Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day. HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security. 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. A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache. 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. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache 2.2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. United Kingdom 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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