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Site Info - Wikipedia.org

Overview of web technologies used by Wikipedia.org.

Website Background

Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

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 States20.7%6
Japan7.7%10
India7%7
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US2.3%6
Tokyo, JP2.1%9
Los Angeles, CA, US1.9%6

Main visitors locations

Website Quality Alerts

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The content language code "many" specified in the HTML content-language meta tag is unknow.

Unknown content language specification

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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 1.19
(version 1.18 used until recently)
(3% 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

Transitional version of XHTML.

XHTML Transitional 1.0

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
(used until recently)

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

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority.

DigiCert

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 Score60695297
Content Management Systems5756997
Server-side Programming Languages678845
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
Markup Languages627154
Web Servers628143
1 Quality Alert-5

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