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Site Info - Metrolyrics.com

Overview of web technologies used by Metrolyrics.com.

Website Background

Song Lyrics - MetroLyrics
MetroLyrics is a searchable lyrics database featuring 1,000,000+ song lyrics from 20,000 artists. Use MetroLyrics to find your favorite song lyrics.

Description on Homepage

Large lyrics database organized by artist and title. MetroLyrics has become the most popular lyrics site worldwide, reaching more than 38 million unique monthly visitors, receiving 112 million monthly page views, and ranking as the 3rd largest music web site in the USA based on number of unique monthly users. metrolyrics.com is the exclusive lyrics partner for all AOL Music properties, Billboard.com, and other popular music sites.

Description from Alexa

30 December 2002

Online since

Number 1,448 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States33.1%500
India7.4%750
United Kingdom4.1%661
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US4.2%250
Los Angeles, CA, US3.4%336
San Francisco, CA, US1.6%411

Main visitors locations

WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP 5.4.13
(version 5.4.11 used until recently)
(1% of sites use a newer version)

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 1.7.1
(41% of sites use a newer version)

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
(used until recently)

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

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

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

Google +1

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

Twitter

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

AddThis

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

Apache 2.2.22
(18% of sites use a newer version)

The LiteSpeed Web Server is a lightweight web server by LiteSpeed Technologies.

LiteSpeed
(used until recently)

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This contains Unix and Unix-like system, such as Linux.

Unix
(used until recently)

The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

Google Libraries API

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

ClickTale is a hosted in-page web analytics service.

ClickTale

Omniture Web Analytics is a web site traffic analysis service. Its products include SiteCatalyst, WebSideStory and Hitbox.

Omniture
(used until recently)

AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network.

Google AdSense

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick

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 Score67795380
Content Management Systems577638
Server-side Programming Languages78894799
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries69965159
Markup Languages606653
Social Widgets586253
Web Servers69804482
Operating Systems382848
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749652
Traffic Analysis Tools859080
Advertising Networks778669

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