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Overview of web technologies used by Yahoo.com.

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Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, News, Finance, Sports, Shopping, Entertainment, Video
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

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Top 1k among all websites

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Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java
used on a subdomain

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

JavaScript

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

jQuery 1.11.3
85% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.

Modernizr
used on a subdomain

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

Envoy

The Apache Traffic Server is a caching proxy server derived from the Yahoo Traffic Server.

Apache Traffic Server

Yahoo operates several web portals and related services world-wide, owned by Verizon.

Yahoo

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon
used on a subdomain
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Yahoo operates several web portals and related services world-wide, owned by Verizon.

Yahoo

Verizon Media (formerly Oath) provides media and online services, owned by Verizon.

Verizon Media

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon
used on a subdomain

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

Amazon CloudFront
used on inner pages

Yahoo is an internet services provider owned by Verizon.

Yahoo

Yahoo is an internet services provider owned by Verizon.

Yahoo

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

DigiCert

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

jsDelivr
used until recently

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

Full Circle Studies

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic
used on inner pages

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

Google Ads

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

OpenX

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter/X
used until recently

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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies
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 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 inner pages

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

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 use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to http://example.com/.

Default protocol http

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 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

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

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

Twitter/X Cards
used on inner pages

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

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF

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

JPEG
used on inner pages

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Japan
used until recently

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