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Site Info - Smashingmagazine.com

Overview of web technologies used by Smashingmagazine.com.

Website Background

Smashing Magazine — For Professional Web Designers and Developers
Smashing Magazine is an online magazine for professional Web designers and developers, with a focus on useful techniques, best practices and valuable resources.

Description on Homepage

Please send a brief email to ” title=”Advertise with us!”>advertising@smashingmagazine.com (Michael Dobler), we’ll be in touch shortly. Please notice that we would never publish paid content as we would never write reviews about your company or your products unless we find them useful for web-developers. The articles published on Smashing Magazine are objective; the quality of each article is defined by its degree of utility. We respect our visitors and protect their interests. ...

Description from Alexa

Number 1,303 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States19.7%705
India13.3%343
Germany5.7%591
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US2.2%655
Los Angeles, CA, US1.9%682
Bombay, IN1.6%295

Main visitors locations

WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP

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 1.8.3
(version 1.5.2 used until recently)
(2% 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

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

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.

GeoTrust

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter

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

Nginx

Debian is a Linux distribution.

Debian
(used until recently)

Clicky is a real-time web analytics tool by Roxr Software.

Clicky

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 Score58655098
Content Management Systems577538
Server-side Programming Languages688946
Client-side Programming Languages7510051
JavaScript Libraries81965198
Markup Languages596653
SSL Certificate Authorities525253
Social Widgets535452
Web Servers494059
Traffic Analysis Tools271043

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