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Site Info - Live.com

Overview of web technologies used by Live.com.

Website Background

Microsoft account

Description on Homepage

Windows Live
Search engine from Microsoft.

Description from Alexa

28 December 1994

Online since

Number 7 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States16.2%12
Brazil7.4%7
Mexico6.6%5
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Mexico City, MX1.6%5
New York, NY, US1.4%11
London, GB1.4%8

Main visitors locations

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

JavaScript

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages.

HTML

Transitional version of HTML.

HTML Transitional 4.0

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
(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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies

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

HttpOnly Cookies

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure 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
(used until recently)

Deflate is a data compression algorithm.

Deflate Compression
(used until recently)

The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft-IIS 7.5
(2% of sites use a newer version)

Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows

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 Score63665098
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
Markup Languages606653
Web Servers62404898
Operating Systems535948

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