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Overview of web technologies used by Cnn.com.

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View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

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Shopify is a hosted online store building service.

Shopify
used on a subdomain

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby
used on a subdomain

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 3.7.1
version 3.5.1 used until recently
0% of sites use a newer version

Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.

Moment.js

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

Bootstrap
used until recently

Animate is a CSS library focusing on animations.

Animate
used on a subdomain

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Server
used on a subdomain

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Shopify is a hosted online store building service.

Shopify
used on a subdomain
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Fastly

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare
used on a subdomain

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.

Proofpoint

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

GlobalSign

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

IdenTrust
used on a subdomain

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

CDNJS

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

jsDelivr
used on a subdomain

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

jQuery CDN
used on a subdomain

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Chartbeat

Nielsen provides web site visitor tracking services. This includes the former brand NetRatings.

Nielsen

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 on a subdomain

Facebook Pixel is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

Facebook Pixel
used on a subdomain

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

Google Ads

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

Amazon Associates

Xandr is an advertising network owned by Microsoft, formerly by AT&T. This includes the former AppNexus brand.

Xandr

PubMatic is a marketing automation software provider.

PubMatic

Outbrain is a native advertising platform.

Outbrain

Nativo (formerly PostRelease) is a network for native advertising.

Nativo

Media.net is an advertising network powering the Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads program.

Media.net
used on a subdomain

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

OpenX
used until recently

Rakuten Advertising (formerly Rakuten Affiliate Network and LinkShare) is an advertising network.

Rakuten Advertising
used until recently

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

Google Tag Manager
used on a subdomain

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

Facebook
used on inner pages

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

Twitter
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

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

Session Cookies
used on a subdomain

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours
used on a subdomain

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days
used on a subdomain

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.

Cookies expiring in months
used on a subdomain

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

HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain

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

Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Brotli Compression
used on a subdomain

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

HTTP/2
used on a subdomain

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
used on a subdomain

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

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 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 Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

Twitter 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

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

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF

ICO is an image file format for computer icons, originally used in Microsoft Windows, on the Web often used for favicons.

ICO

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

WebP
used until recently

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