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Architecture Or What is the technology stack behind Airbnb.com

Overview of web technologies used by Airbnb.com.
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Description on Homepage



Number 413 of all websites according to Alexa



Popularity rank






CountryVisitorsCountry Rank


United States47.2%199


India4.6%1,457


China4.3%1,169






CityVisitorsCity Rank


New York, NY, US6.2%131


San Francisco, CA, US5.6%96


Los Angeles, CA, US4.6%138







Main visitors locations





Client-side Programming Language







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





JavaScript 





JavaScript Library







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





JQuery 





Markup Language







HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.





HTML5 





Character Encoding







UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.





UTF-8 





Image File Format







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





JPEG 





Site Elements







External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.





External 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 of up to 1 day.





Cookies expiring in hours 





Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.





Non-HttpOnly Cookies 





Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.





Non-Secure Cookies 





Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.





Gzip Compression 





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 





SPDY (pronounced speedy) is a web protocol developed by Google, the basis for HTTP/2.





SPDY 





HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.





HTTP Strict Transport Security 





SSL Certificate Authority







DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority.





DigiCert 





Web Server







Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.





Nginx 1.7.12
(59% of sites use a newer version)





Web Hosting Provider







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





Amazon 
hosting info based on data from ipinfo.io





Reverse Proxy Service







Akamai is a content delivery network.





Akamai 





Top Level Domain







Commercial entities





.com 





Server Locations





United States 
Netherlands





Content Language





English



Technology Score



The technology score rates a site based on its technologies in a range from 0 to 100. It consists in a popularity score (how many sites use the same technologies), a traffic score (how much traffic have other sites using the same technologies) and a version score (how many sites use more recent technology versions). Quality alerts also affect the rating.




TotalPopularity TrafficVersion


Technology Score62646241


Client-side Programming Languages7510051


JavaScript Libraries739849


Markup Languages647454


SSL Certificate Authorities481779


Web Servers50555541


Reverse Proxy Services593782











































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