WhiteHouse.gov Technical Facts
So, have you ever wondered what are the technical specs of the official website for the White House and the US President?
Here are all the technical 101s that you want and (probably) you need to know about WhiteHouse.gov.
It’s not “Powered by Linux”
YES! WhiteHouse.gov runs on Windows Server, uses IIS 6.0 (not the latest IIS 7) and ASP.NET 2.0 (not 3.5).
Here are more technical specs, in bullet form to sum things up:
- Uses JQuery 1.2.6 (The popular Javascript library)
- Uses GZIP compression
- uses Vary: Accept-Encoding (This forces proxies not to server GZIP content to agents that cannot decode it)
- uses Cache-Control: private and max-age
- Uses WebTrends Live tracking
- Uses the meta keywords tag
- Uses ViewState (Allows the site to store server-side data on the browsers)
- Uses WebResource.axd (A script file generated by ASP.NET)
- Uses more GIFs than PNGs
- Uses 5 stylesheets and 12 JavaScripts
- Uses heavy JPG compression
- Uses image sprites (Combination of several small images into one)
- Uses Packer (A utility that encodes a JavaScript file into a compressed format)
- Uses a non-transparent favicon
Interesting to know more? Jump to this page, everything is explained in details.
