Overview of web technologies used by Mit.edu.
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Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.
Drupal 9
version 10 used until recently
39% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Server-side Programming Language
PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.
PHP 8.2.20
23% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Client-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.
Modernizr 2.6.2
58% of sites use a newer version
Vue.js is a JavaScript library for building interactive web interfaces, based on the Model View ViewModel pattern.
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
74% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.
Underscore
used on a subdomain
Lodash is a JavaScript utility library delivering modularity.
Lodash
used on a subdomain
Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.
Backbone
used on a subdomain
The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.
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.
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Fastly
used on a subdomain
Akamai is a content delivery network.
Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.
DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by 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
JavaScript Content Delivery Network
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.
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.
The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.
Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.
A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.
LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.
LinkedIn
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.
Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.
Embedded CSS
used on a subdomain
Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.
Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.
Session Cookies
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
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
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.
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.
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/.
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.
Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.
Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.
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.
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
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
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