Web Technologies used by Google.com
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Overview of web technologies used by Google.com.
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JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
Prototype is a JavaScript framework originally developed by Sam Stephenson.
Prototype
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Google develops a range of web servers for their web infrastructure.
Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Google
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Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Gmail is the email service provided by Google.
GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.
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
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The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
Google Ads
used on inner pages
The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.
Google Tag Manager
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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 month and 1 year.
Cookies expiring in months
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Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.
Cookies expiring in years
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HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
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Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
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Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
Gzip Compression
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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/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
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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/.
Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.
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
used on inner pages
Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.
Twitter/X Cards
used on inner pages
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
JSON-LD
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Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.
Generic RDFa
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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.
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
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JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
JPEG
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WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.
WebP
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GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.
GIF
used until recently
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