Overview of web technologies used by Stanford.edu.
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Stanford University
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WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.
WordPress 6.8.1
version 6.7.2 used until recently
0% of sites use a newer version
Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.
Drupal 10
5% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver is a web design tool running on OS X and Windows.
Adobe Dreamweaver
used until recently
Server-side Programming Languages
PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language.
JavaScript
used on a subdomain
Static websites don't use any server-side programming language for generating web pages, but deliver fixed content which is created manually or with an offline tool.
static files
used until recently
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 3.7.1
version 1.11.2 used until recently
0% of sites use a newer version
Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.
Modernizr
used on a subdomain
React is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed by Facebook.
React
used on a subdomain
Next.js is an open source JavaScript framework based on React and Node.js.
Next.js
used on a subdomain
Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.
Bootstrap
used until recently
Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.
Bootstrap
used until recently
Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.
Nginx 1.26.2
16% of sites use a newer version
The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache 2.4.52
35% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.
Cloudflare Server
used on a subdomain
Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.
Node.js
used on a subdomain
Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.
Ubuntu
used on a subdomain
Pantheon provides CMS hosting.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
used on a subdomain
DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.
DigitalOcean
used on a subdomain
Acquia provides Drupal hosting.
Acquia
used on a subdomain
OVH is an internet service provider providing dedicated servers, shared and cloud hosting, headquartered in France.
OVH
used until recently
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
used on a subdomain
DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.
DigitalOcean
used on a subdomain
OVH is an internet service provider providing dedicated servers, shared and cloud hosting, headquartered in France.
OVH
used until recently
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.
Cloudflare
used on a subdomain
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.
Amazon CloudFront
used on a subdomain
Akamai is a content delivery network. This includes the former brands Instart Logic and StackPath.
Akamai
used on a subdomain
DNS Made Easy is a DNS service provider owned by DigiCert.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
used on a subdomain
Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.
Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.
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
DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.
DigiCert
used on a subdomain
Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.
Sectigo
used until recently
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.
CDNJS
used on a subdomain
jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.
jsDelivr
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 until recently
unpkg is a JavaScript content delivery network for libraries that use the npm package manager.
unpkg
used until recently
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.
Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.
New Relic is a web application performance management tool.
Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.
Quantcast
used on a subdomain
CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.
CrazyEgg
used on a subdomain
Lucky Orange is a website visitor tracking platform.
Lucky Orange
used on a subdomain
Siteimprove is a web governance software, that includes a web analytics module.
Siteimprove
used on a subdomain
The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.
LinkedIn Insight Tag
used until recently
The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) is an advertising networks for ads served on the web, mobile and tablets.
Equativ
used on a subdomain
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.
Facebook
used on a subdomain
A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.
Twitter/X
used on a subdomain
LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.
LinkedIn
used on a subdomain
AddToAny is a social bookmarking and sharing service.
AddToAny
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.
Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
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
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/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
used on a subdomain
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/.
Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.
Session Cookies
used until recently
Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.
Cookies expiring in hours
used until recently
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.
Cookies expiring in months
used until recently
HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
used until recently
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 until recently
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
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.
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.
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
JSON-LD
used until recently
Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.
Microdata
used until recently
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.
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.
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.
SVG
used on a subdomain
WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.
WebP
used on a subdomain
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United States
Germany
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Australia
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Sweden
used until recently
Austria
used until recently
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