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Site Info - Thedailybeast.comOverview of web technologies used by Thedailybeast.com. Website Background The Daily BeastA smart, speedy take on the news from around the world, combined with the depth and investigative power of Newsweek Magazine. Description on Homepage Number 1,442 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages. UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII. 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. 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. A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site. ShareThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service. LinkedIn Share Buttons enables visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network. Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.
The Apache HTTP Server is a popular open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites. Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research. Omniture Web Analytics is a web site traffic analysis service. Its products include SiteCatalyst, WebSideStory and Hitbox. Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks. Nielsen NetRatings is a web site visitor tracking service provided by The Nielsen Company. Commercial entities 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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