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Site Info - Rawlinson.usOverview of web technologies used by Rawlinson.us. Website Background rawlinson - us Description on Homepage If this site looks familiar - before you yell at me read the FAQ Description from Alexa 6 December 2002 Online since Number 1,236,787 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank Blogger is a hosted blog publishing system, owned by Google. PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages. Transitional version of XHTML.
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII. 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.
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.
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. Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm. 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. 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. GeoTrust is a SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec. This includes SSL certificates issues by the certification branch of Equifax, which was acquired by GeoTrust. The Google +1 button allows visitors to recommend web pages to friends. Google Web Server (GWS) is the web server that Google uses for their web infrastructure. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.
The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network.
United States 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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