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Site Info - Reddit.com

Overview of web technologies used by Reddit.com.

Website Background

reddit: the front page of the internet

Description on Homepage

User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.

Description from Alexa

29 April 2005

Online since

Number 118 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States44.2%52
India16.1%80
Canada5.1%48
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US4.4%48
New York, NY, US4.4%44
San Francisco, CA, US2.9%44

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 1.7.2
(29% 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

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

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

Cookies expiring in decades
(used until recently)

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

Non-HttpOnly Cookies
(used until recently)

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

Non-Secure Cookies
(used until recently)

Verizon is an IT service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority, primarily via its acquisition of Cybertrust.

Verizon

Reddit Buttons allow web pages to be submitted to and discussed on Reddit.

Reddit

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

Adzerk is an ad serving network focusing on speed and scalability.

Adzerk

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick
(used until recently)

Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft, formerly called Aquantive and also including Atlas Solutions.

Microsoft Advertising
(used until recently)

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 Score58595771
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries73965171
Markup Languages596653
SSL Certificate Authorities421074
Social Widgets311349
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749652
Traffic Analysis Tools709051
Advertising Networks38472

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