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Site Info - Wikipedia.org

Overview of web technologies used by Wikipedia.org.

Website Background

Wikipedia

Description on Homepage

A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License).

Description from Alexa

13 January 2001

Online since

Number 6 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States19.7%7
India8.7%7
Japan7.4%12
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US2%6
Tokyo, JP1.8%11
Los Angeles, CA, US1.6%6

Main visitors locations

Website Quality Alerts

Found on page http://en.wikipedia.org/
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MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker.

MediaWiki 1.22
(version 1.21 used until recently)
(0% 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

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

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

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

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority.

DigiCert

GeoTrust is a SSL certificate authority owned by Symantec. This includes SSL certificates issues by the certification branch of Equifax, which was acquired by GeoTrust.

GeoTrust
(used until recently)

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

Apache

Non-profit organization

.org

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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 Score565956100
Content Management Systems58470100
Server-side Programming Languages689047
Client-side Programming Languages7610052
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities401268
Web Servers628143
1 Quality Alert-5

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