Overview of web technologies used by Scribd.com.
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Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.
Zendesk
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Server-side Programming Language
Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.
Ruby
used on a subdomain
Client-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.
jQuery 3.5.1
63% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.
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.
Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.
Zendesk
used on a subdomain
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.
Cloudflare
used on a subdomain
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.
Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.
Zendesk
used on a subdomain
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.
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.
Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.
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.
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.
Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.
Cookies expiring in years
used on inner pages
Persistent cookies with an expiration time of more than 10 years.
Cookies expiring in decades
used on inner pages
HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
used on inner pages
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 inner pages
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
used on inner pages
Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.
A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.
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
used on a subdomain
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 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.
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.
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
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.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.
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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