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Site Info - Gnu.org

Overview of web technologies used by Gnu.org.

Website Background

The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

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Found on page https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2021/adding-translations-to-guix-website/
The character encoding is defined only after the title in the HTML code and the title contains non-ASCII characters.

Title declaration before character encoding declaration

Found on page http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php
There is no title defined for the web page.

No title declaration

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PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP
used on a subdomain

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

Apache

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

Nginx 1.18.0
79% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

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

Linux
used on a subdomain

Hetzner is a German web hosting provider.

Hetzner
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

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

Let’s Encrypt

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

IPv6

HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.

HTTP/2
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
used until recently

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

Transitional version of HTML.

HTML Transitional 4.0
used on a subdomain

Transitional version of XHTML.

XHTML Transitional 1.0
used on a subdomain

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
used on a subdomain

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

Organizations

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United States
Germany
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