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Site Info - Birmingham.ac.uk

Overview of web technologies used by Birmingham.ac.uk.

Website Background

A leading global university - University of Birmingham
A world top 100 university and part of the prestigious Russell Group, the University of Birmingham makes important things happen.

Description on Homepage

Top 100k among all websites

Popularity rank

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Contensis is a hosted content management system based on .NET and developed by Zengenti.

Contensis 16.1
version 16.0 used until recently
14% of sites use a newer version

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

ASP.NET

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

JavaScript

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.

Modernizr
used on inner pages

ASP.NET Ajax is a JavaScript library based on ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft.

ASP.NET Ajax
used on inner pages

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This includes Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux.

Unix

Zengenti provides Contensis, a hosted content management system.

Zengenti
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.

Sectigo

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

Hotjar

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. This includes the Ads conversion tracking and the Floodlight services.

Google Analytics
used until recently

The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.

Google Ads

Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft. This includes the former brands Xandr, AppNexus, Aquantive and others.

Microsoft Advertising

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

Google Tag Manager

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

Facebook
used on inner pages

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter/X
used on inner pages

LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

LinkedIn
used on inner pages

The Weibo Share Button enables website visitors to share content on the Chinese Weibo microblogging site.

Weibo
used on inner pages

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

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

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

HTTP/3

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 its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

Default subdomain www

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

Default protocol https

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

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

Twitter/X Cards

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

JSON-LD
used on inner pages

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

Generic RDFa
used on inner pages

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

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

JPEG

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

SVG

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