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Site Info - Pinterest.com

Overview of web technologies used by Pinterest.com.

Website Background

Pinterest

Description on Homepage

Pinterest is an online pinboard: a place where you can post collections of things you love, and “follow” collections created by people with great taste.

Description from Alexa

Number 35 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States46.2%16
India11.6%20
United Kingdom3.4%36
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US3.6%20
New York, NY, US3%24
San Francisco, CA, US1.9%21

Main visitors locations

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
(version 1.6.4 used until recently)
(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

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
(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

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

Session Cookies

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

Cookies expiring in months

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of more than 10 years.

Cookies expiring in decades

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.

Strong ETag

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

Inline CSS
(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)

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority.

DigiCert

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx 0.8.54
(76% of sites use a newer version)

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

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 Score62715542
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries69965159
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities401267
Web Servers41395924
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749652
Traffic Analysis Tools719051

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