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Site Info - Speedtest.net

Overview of web technologies used by Speedtest.net.

Website Background

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Test your Internet connection bandwidth to locations around the world with this interactive broadband speed test

Description on Homepage

Speedtest.net allows you to test the bandwidth of your Internet connection to locations around the world.

Description from Alexa

25 June 1999

Online since

Number 432 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States17.9%548
India14.1%247
United Kingdom5.5%308
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US1.8%523
New York, NY, US1.6%637
Delhi, IN1.6%237

Main visitors locations

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP 5.3.18
(version 5.3.21 used until recently)
(19% of sites use a newer version)

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 1.8.1
(version 1.8.0 used until recently)
(26% of sites use a newer version)

Strict version of XHTML.

XHTML Strict 1.0

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

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

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

Cookies expiring in months

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

Thawte is an SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec.

Thawte

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

Facebook

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

Twitter

The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest.

Pinterest

LinkedIn Share Buttons enables visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

LinkedIn

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

Reddit

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

Apache 2.2.16
(41% of sites use a newer version)

Debian is a Linux distribution.

Debian

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

Google Analytics

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

GoSquared monitors and analyses a website's traffic in real-time.

GoSquared

AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network.

Google AdSense

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick
(used until recently)

Network providers

.net

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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 Score62725171
Server-side Programming Languages72894681
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries74965174
Markup Languages423549
SSL Certificate Authorities422955
Social Widgets668053
Web Servers61794459
Operating Systems383244
Traffic Analysis Tools799067
Advertising Networks688650

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