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Site Info - Ubuntu.com

Overview of web technologies used by Ubuntu.com.

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Home | Ubuntu
Fast, secure and stylishly simple, the Ubuntu operating system is used by 20 million people worldwide every day.

Description on Homepage

Ubuntu Linux
Official site; Commercially sponsored Debian-derived Linux distribution that focuses on usability, a regular 6-month release cycle, and a commitment to at least 18 months of security updates for every release.

Description from Alexa

29 May 2004

Online since

Number 1,342 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
India14.4%606
United States11.4%2,216
China6.3%2,418
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Bombay, IN1.9%635
Beijing, CN1.7%2,319
Madras, IN1.7%539

Main visitors locations

Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

Drupal
(used until recently)

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP 5.3.10
(used until recently)

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

JavaScript

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a JavaScript library developed by Yahoo.

YUI Library

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

JQuery
(used until recently)

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages.

HTML

Strict version of XHTML.

XHTML Strict 1.0
(used until recently)

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

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
(used until recently)

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

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS
(used until recently)

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

Cookies expiring in days
(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)

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

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

Apache 2.2.22
(17% of sites use a newer version)

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu

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

Google Analytics

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 Score59655183
Client-side Programming Languages7510051
JavaScript Libraries351556
Markup Languages596553
Social Widgets668052
Web Servers69794483
Operating Systems382848
Traffic Analysis Tools709051

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