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Site Info - Wikihow.comOverview of web technologies used by Wikihow.com. Website Background wikiHow - How to do anythingwikiHow is a wiki based collaboration to build the world’s largest, highest quality how to manual. Our multilingual how to manual has free step-by-step instructions on how to do all types of things. Description on Homepage 12 June 2004 Online since Number 355 of all websites according to Alexa Popularity rank
Main visitors locations MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker. PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages. JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages. JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig. Transitional version of XHTML. 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. 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. Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends. 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. The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest. Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. GoSquared monitors and analyses a website's traffic in real-time. AdSense is the publisher part of Google's advertising network.
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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