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Site Info - Mit.edu

Overview of web technologies used by Mit.edu.

Website Background

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Description on Homepage

Top 1k among all websites

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

Drupal 10
version 9 used until recently
2% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP 8.2.20
15% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

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

Vue.js is a JavaScript library for building interactive web interfaces, based on the Model View ViewModel pattern.

Vue.js

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

jQuery 3.1.0
72% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

Lodash is a JavaScript utility library delivering modularity.

Lodash
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
used on a subdomain

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

Linux
used on a subdomain

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

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

Akamai is a content delivery network. This includes the former brands Instart Logic and StackPath.

Akamai

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Fastly
used on a subdomain

Akamai is a content delivery network.

Akamai

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.

Microsoft

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

DigiCert

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

Let’s Encrypt
used on a subdomain

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

Sectigo
used on a subdomain

Google Hosted Libraries (formerly called Google Libraries API) is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

Google Hosted Libraries
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

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

Meta Pixel
used on a subdomain

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

Hotjar
used on a subdomain

Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.

Microsoft UET
used on a subdomain

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic
used on a subdomain

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg
used on a subdomain

Contentsquare is a hosted web analytics service. This includes the former ClickTale brand.

Contentsquare
used on a subdomain

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

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

Twitter/X

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

LinkedIn
used on a subdomain

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

AddThis
used on a subdomain

Reddit Buttons allow web pages to be submitted to and discussed on Reddit.

Reddit
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

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

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
used on a subdomain

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
used on a subdomain

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

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

Generic RDFa

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

Microdata
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

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

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
used on a subdomain

United States educational institutes

.edu

United States
used on a subdomain

English

 

 

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