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Site Info - Nist.govOverview of web technologies used by Nist.gov. Website Background National Institute of Standards and Technology Description on Homepage National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)USA. Federal agency, cooperating with industry to develop and apply technologies, measurements, and standards. Description from Alexa Number 14,450 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations CommonSpot is a content management system based on ColdFusion, developed by PaperThin. CommonSpot 5.1.1.160 ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, and developed by Adobe Systems. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. JQuery 1.7.2 Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.
Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library based on the Prototype JavaScript framework, originally developed by Thomas Fuchs.
Transitional version of XHTML. ISO-8859-1 (informally also called Latin-1) is an 8-bit character set for Western European languages. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.
External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file. Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page. Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute. 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. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
Verisign is an SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution.
The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google. United States Government 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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