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Site Info - Wikia.com

Overview of web technologies used by Wikia.com.

Website Background

Wiki communities for everyone! -- Wikia.com
Wikia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge!

Description on Homepage

Free wiki hosting from Wikia, using the same MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia.

Description from Alexa

8 December 2003

Online since

Number 155 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States33.7%84
United Kingdom5.1%103
India4.8%376
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Los Angeles, CA, US3%99
New York, NY, US2.9%99
Central District, HK1.5%32

Main visitors locations

MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker.

MediaWiki 1.19.6
(version 1.19.5 used until recently)
(28% of sites use a newer version)

PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

PHP

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 1.8.2
(25% of sites use a newer version)

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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies

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

Entrust is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

Entrust

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

Apache

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic
(used until recently)

Advertising.com is an advertising network owned by AOL. It includes services that were originally developed independently, such as Tacoda, Adsonar and Quigo.

AOL Advertising
(used until recently)

Commercial entities

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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 Score60595874
Content Management Systems4947072
Server-side Programming Languages689047
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
JavaScript Libraries74965275
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities411566
Web Servers628143
Traffic Analysis Tools491682

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