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Site Info - Pch.com

Overview of web technologies used by Pch.com.

Website Background

Publishers Clearing House

Description on Homepage

Online sweepstakes and shopping site. Cookies required to use the site.

Description from Alexa

18 January 1994

Online since

Number 339 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States98.7%80
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US5.1%135
New York, NY, US3.7%159
Chicago, IL, US2.8%86

Main visitors locations

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

ASP.NET 2.0.50727
(49% of sites use a newer version)

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP 5.3.23
(used until recently)

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 1.6.2
(version 1.6.4 used until recently)
(57% of sites use a newer version)

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages.

HTML

Transitional version of HTML.

HTML Transitional 4.01
(used until recently)

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

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

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
(used until recently)

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

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS

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

Session Cookies

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

HttpOnly Cookies

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies

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

Non-Secure Cookies

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS
(used until recently)

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours
(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 month and 1 year.

Cookies expiring in months
(used until recently)

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression
(used until recently)

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

Entrust

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

Microsoft-IIS 6.0
(49% of sites use a newer version)

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

Apache 2.2.24
(used until recently)

Windows is a popular operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg

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

Google Analytics
(used until recently)

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

Full Circle Studies
(used until recently)

Commercial entities

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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 Score53535548
Server-side Programming Languages49445351
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries63965243
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities411566
Web Servers46404851
Operating Systems535948
Traffic Analysis Tools37470

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