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Site Info - Nist.gov

Overview 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

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States34.4%6,150
India11.8%13,934
China7.2%19,029
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US3.8%6,785
New York, NY, US3.1%7,862
Washington, DC, US2.9%1,737

Main visitors locations

CommonSpot is a content management system based on ColdFusion, developed by PaperThin.

CommonSpot 5.1.1.160
(69% of sites use a newer version)

ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, and developed by Adobe Systems.

ColdFusion

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

JavaScript

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

Flash

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
(version 1.4.2 used until recently)
(30% of sites use a newer version)

Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.

Prototype
(used until recently)

Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library based on the Prototype JavaScript framework, originally developed by Thomas Fuchs.

Script.aculo.us
(used until recently)

Transitional version of XHTML.

XHTML Transitional 1.0

ISO-8859-1 (informally also called Latin-1) is an 8-bit character set for Western European languages.

ISO-8859-1

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
(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

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.

IPv6

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression
(used until recently)

Verisign is an SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec.

Verisign

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

Apache

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution.

Red Hat
(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

United States Government

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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 Score57595651
Content Management Systems3316731
Server-side Programming Languages33957
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries73965270
Markup Languages586749
SSL Certificate Authorities472371
Web Servers628143
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749653

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