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Overview of web technologies used by Bbc.com.

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Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more.

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Top 1k among all websites

Popularity rank

Shopify is a hosted online store building service.

Shopify
used on a subdomain

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language. This includes TypeScript.

JavaScript

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

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

Bootstrap

Next.js is an open source JavaScript framework based on React and Node.js.

Next.js

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

RequireJS

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

jQuery 2.2.4
version 3.7.1 used until recently
78% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

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

Bootstrap
used until recently

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.

Node.js

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Server
used on a subdomain

Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.

Envoy
used on a subdomain

Shopify is a hosted online store building service.

Shopify
used on a subdomain

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

Salesforce
used until recently
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

Salesforce
used until recently

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Fastly

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare
used on a subdomain

NS1 provides managed and private DNS services, owned by IBM.

NS1
used until recently

Broadcom provides a range of IT services. This includes the former Symantec Enterprise services.

Broadcom

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

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

GlobalSign

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 until recently

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

jQuery CDN
used on a subdomain

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

CDNJS
used until recently

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

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

Full Circle Studies
used on inner pages

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

Chartbeat
used on inner pages

Ahrefs Web Analytics is a free web analytics service.

Ahrefs Web Analytics
used on a subdomain

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

CrazyEgg
used on a subdomain

Optimizely provides a web analytics and A/B testing tool.

Optimizely
used on a subdomain

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

Nielsen
used until recently

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

Google Ads
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

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

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

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

Deflate is a data compression algorithm.

Deflate Compression
used until recently

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/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

Twitter/X 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

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

SVG

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

WebP

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
used on a subdomain

Commercial entities

.com

United States
used until recently

English

 

 

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