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Site Info - Archlinux.org

Overview of web technologies used by Archlinux.org.

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Arch Linux

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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 1.45.3
version 1.45.1 used until recently
1% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

UptimeRobot is a hosted service for showing the uptime status of websites.

UptimeRobot
used on a subdomain

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP
used on a subdomain

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often 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 3.6.0
version 3.7.1 used until recently
62% of sites use a newer version
used on inner pages

UIkit is a lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing web interfaces.

UIkit
used on a subdomain

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx

Caddy is an open-source web server implemented in Go.

Caddy
used on a subdomain

Hetzner is a German web hosting provider.

Hetzner
used on a subdomain

UptimeRobot is a hosted service for showing the uptime status of websites.

UptimeRobot
used on a subdomain
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Hetzner is a German web hosting provider.

Hetzner
used on a subdomain

Hetzner is a German provider of internet services.

Hetzner

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

Let’s Encrypt

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

Zstandard Compression
used on a subdomain

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
used on a subdomain

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS
used on a subdomain

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

Session Cookies
used on a subdomain

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days
used on a subdomain

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Brotli 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
used on a subdomain

A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.

Weak 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 address is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.

IPv6

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

HTTP Strict Transport Security

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Default protocol https

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

HTTP/3
used until recently

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

JSON-LD

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

Microdata
used on inner pages

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Open Graph
used on a subdomain

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

Twitter/X Cards
used on a subdomain

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Generic RDFa
used on a subdomain

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

HTML5

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

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

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

SVG

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
used on inner pages

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 on inner pages

Organizations

.org

United States
Germany
used on a subdomain
Finland
used until recently

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