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Site Info - Metapedia.org

Overview of web technologies used by Metapedia.org.

Website Background

Metapedia — countering semantic distortion worldwide

Metapedia is an electronic encyclopedia about culture, art, science, philosophy and politics.

Description on Homepage

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Popularity rank

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Found on page https://www.metapedia.org/
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

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Content Management System

MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker.

~~MediaWiki 1.31.1~~
used until recently

Server-side Programming Language

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

~~PHP~~
used until recently

Client-side Programming Language

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

~~JavaScript~~
used until recently

Web Server

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

Nginx

Web Hosting Provider

IONOS (formerly 1&1 IONOS and 1&1 Internet) is a European web hosting company owned by United Internet.

IONOS
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io, see details

Data Center Provider

IONOS (formerly 1&1 IONOS and 1&1 Internet) is a European web hosting company owned by United Internet.

IONOS

DNS Server Providers

Dynu provides dynamic DNS services and other internet services.

Dynu

Loopia is an internet services provider headquartered in Sweden owned by team.blue.

~~Loopia~~
used until recently

Email Server Provider

Loopia is an internet services provider headquartered in Sweden owned by team.blue.

~~Loopia~~
used until recently

SSL Certificate Authority

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

Let’s Encrypt

JavaScript Content Delivery Network

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

CDNJS

Site Elements

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

External 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 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

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

Markup Language

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

HTML5

Character Encoding

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

UTF-8

Image File Formats

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 until recently

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