Overview of web technologies used by Amazon.com.
Website Background
Description on Homepage:
Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more
Online shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewellery, tools & hardware, housewares, furniture, sporting goods, beauty & personal care, broadband & dsl, gourmet food & just about anything else.
Online since: 1 November 1994
Popularity rank: Number 6 of all websites according to Alexa
Main visitors locations: Country
Visitors
Country Rank
United States
55.6%
3
South Korea
5%
4
China
4.8%
29
City
Visitors
City Rank
New York, NY, US
5.4%
4
Los Angeles, CA, US
4.2%
4 San Francisco, CA, US
3.6%
3
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Found on page http://www.amazon.com/
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Client-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.
JavaScript
JavaScript Library
J Query is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, and animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resign.
J Query
Mark up Languages
HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is a language to define web pages.
HTML
Transitional version of HTML.
HTML Transitional 4.01
(used until recently)
Character Encodings
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode