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Site Info - Cam.ac.uk

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

Website Background

University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s leading universities, with a rich history of radical thinking dating back to 1209.

Description on Homepage

Top 10k among all websites

Popularity rank

Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

Drupal 7.100
version 7 used until recently
64% of sites use a newer version

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP

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

ASP.NET
used on inner pages

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 1.12
78% of sites use a newer version

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Bootstrap

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

Modernizr 2.8.3
14% of sites use a newer version
used on inner pages

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

Nginx

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

Apache
used on a subdomain

Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.

Linux

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Pantheon
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Fastly

Sucuri offers various types of website protection services.

Sucuri
used on a subdomain

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

Let’s Encrypt

Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.

Starfield
used on a subdomain

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

CDNJS
used on a subdomain

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

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg

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

Google Ads

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

ShareThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service.

ShareThis
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
used on inner pages

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

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

HTTP/3
used on a subdomain

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

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

Session Cookies
used until recently

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

HttpOnly Cookies
used until recently

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

Secure Cookies
used until recently

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

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

Generic RDFa
used on inner pages

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

Microdata
used on inner pages

The Dublin Core Schema is a set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources and physical resources.

Dublin Core
used on inner pages

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

HTML5

XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is an extended version of the XHTML markup language for supporting RDF.

XHTML+RDFa 1.0
used on inner pages

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

WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.

WebP
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 a subdomain

United Kingdom

.uk

United Kingdom
used on a subdomain

English

 

 

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