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Site Info - Msn.com

Overview of web technologies used by Msn.com.

Website Background

MSN Deutschland: Aktuelle Nachrichten, Outlook.com Email und Skype Login.
MSN Deutschland - Ihre Startseite für aktuelle Nachrichten, Sport, Unterhaltung und Wetter. Mit direktem Zugang für Skype und Outlook.com Email (ehemals Messenger und Hotmail).
automatic translation provided by Microsoft
MSN Germany: Latest news, Outlook.com E-mail and Skype login.
MSN Germany - your home for breaking news, sports, entertainment and weather. With direct access to Skype and Outlook.com E-mail (formerly Messenger and Hotmail).

Description on Homepage

Portal for shopping, news and money, e-mail, search, and chat.

Description from Alexa

10 November 1994

Online since

Number 19 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States26.7%16
Japan7.6%19
Brazil6%15
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US2.1%20
Los Angeles, CA, US1.9%18
Tokyo, JP1.8%18

Main visitors locations

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

ASP.NET 4.0.30319
(0% of sites use a newer version)

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java
(used until recently)

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

JavaScript

Silverlight is a rich web application technology by Microsoft.

Silverlight

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

JQuery 1.4.2
(76% 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

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

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

Session Cookies
(used until recently)

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days
(used until recently)

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.

Cookies expiring in years
(used until recently)

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

HttpOnly Cookies
(used until recently)

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)

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

Non-Secure Cookies
(used until recently)

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

Facebook

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

Microsoft-IIS 8.0
(0% of sites use a newer version)

Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows

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

Full Circle Studies

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

Omniture

INFOnline is a German Internet audience measurement services.

INFOnline

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick

Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft, formerly called Aquantive and also including Atlas Solutions.

Microsoft Advertising

Nugg.ad is an advertising network based on predictive behavioral targeting.

Nugg.ad

AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is an advertising network.

AudienceScience
(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 Score61595875
Server-side Programming Languages664453100
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries57965224
Markup Languages606653
Social Widgets668053
Web Servers634048100
Operating Systems535948
Traffic Analysis Tools461082
Advertising Networks603982

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