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Site Info - Thesun.co.uk

Overview of web technologies used by Thesun.co.uk.

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The Sun | The Best for News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities | The Sun
Get the latest news and features at The Sun - Showbiz, babes, celebrities, sport and racing, national and international news. Check out the best pictures, videos, virals and podcasts.

Description on Homepage

The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper owned by News Corporation.

Description from Alexa

19 May 1997

Online since

Number 599 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United Kingdom30.2%64
United States16.3%925
India5.5%1,208
CityVisitorsCity Rank
London, GB5.2%58
New York, NY, US1.7%766
Lagos, NG1.7%131

Main visitors locations

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.

JavaScript

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

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

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

Facebook

The Google +1 button allows visitors to recommend web pages to friends.

Google +1

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

Twitter

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java servlet container that functions as a web server, developed by the Apache Software Foundation

Tomcat

DoubleClick is an advertising network owned by Google.

DoubleClick

United Kingdom

.uk

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 Score575263
Server-side Programming Languages451773
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
Markup Languages606653
Social Widgets678055
Web Servers40773
Advertising Networks553971

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