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Overview of web technologies used by Usability.gov.

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Home | Usability.gov
Usability Home

Description on Homepage

Provided by the National Cancer Institute. Includes information and resources on making web sites and other user interfaces more useful, usable, and accessible. News and current publications and additional links are provided.

Description from Alexa

Number 129,220 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States35.3%55,699
India8.8%109,910
Germany8.1%69,711
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Pune, IN5.5%3,488
San Francisco, CA, US3.8%38,827
Tampa, FL, US2.5%17,969

Main visitors locations

Percussion offers web content management systems.

Percussion 6.7
(used until recently)

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 1.4.2
(76% of sites use a newer version)

Transitional version of HTML.

HTML Transitional 4.01

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

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.

Strong ETag

The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides amongst others a vastly larger address space than the preceding version 4. We consider a website to support IPv6 if a 128-bit addresses is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.

IPv6

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

AddThis

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

Apache

The Sun Java System Web Server is a web server developed by Sun, now owned by Oracle.

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
(used until recently)

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg

United States Government

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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 Score54615224
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries57965224
Markup Languages464744
Social Widgets443948
Web Servers628143
Traffic Analysis Tools37470

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