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Site Info - Merriam-webster.com

Overview of web technologies used by Merriam-webster.com.

Website Background

Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online
Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

Description on Homepage

Publisher of American English dictionaries and reference sources.

Description from Alexa

6 May 1993

Online since

Number 872 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States59.8%281
India6.5%1,322
Canada3%627
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US5.8%275
Los Angeles, CA, US5.3%235
San Francisco, CA, US2.9%265

Main visitors locations

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP

Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted language, nowadays also used to create web pages.

Perl

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

Strict version of XHTML.

XHTML Strict 1.0

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

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

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

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

Entrust

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

Apache 2.2.22
(version 2.2.14 used until recently)
(17% of sites use a newer version)

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu

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

Google Analytics

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

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

Full Circle Studies

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg
(used until recently)

Adtech is an ad serving platform owned by AOL.

Adtech

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 Score59605783
Server-side Programming Languages728955
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries739651
Markup Languages423549
SSL Certificate Authorities421668
Web Servers69794483
Operating Systems382848
Traffic Analysis Tools849079
Advertising Networks391068

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