Vienna University of Technology amongst the Top 200 University-Websites of the world

02. March 2010

Vienna University of Technology amongst the Top 200 University-Websites of the world

Created by Nicole Schipani

Vienna University of Technology is ranked as one of the top 200 Universities in the world according to the 2010 University Web Rankings. In Austria we are number 2.

Based in Australia and established in 2005, 4icu.org is an international higher education search engine and directory which includes 9,200 Universities and Colleges in 200 countries. The 4icu.org Web Ranking of world Universities is based on three independent web metrics and indicators - Page Rank, Traffic Rank and Total Link Popularity - extracted from three popular search engines (Google, Alexa and Yahoo!).

For a full listing of the top 200 Universities and Colleges in the world by the new 2010 University Web Ranking please visit

www.4icu.org/top200/, opens an external URL in a new window

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For the Austrian ranking please visit:

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
CookieConsent	Saves your settings for the use of cookies on this website.	1 year	HTML	Homepage TU Wien
SimpleSAML	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
SimpleSAMLAuthToken	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
fe_typo_user	Is needed so that in case of a Typo3 frontend login the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
staticfilecache	Is needed to optimize the delivery time of the website.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_pk_id	Used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.	13 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ref	Is used to store the information of the users home website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ses	Is needed to store temporary data of the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
nmstat	Is used to record the behaviour on the website. It is used to collect statistics about website usage, such as when the visitor last visited the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is only used for website analysis.	1000 days	HTML	Siteimprove
siteimproveses	Is used to track the sequence of pages that a visitor views during his/her visit to the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is used solely for website analysis.	session	HTTP	Siteimprove
AWSELB	Always occurs in pairs with siteimproveses (for load balancing on the provider server)	session	HTTP	Siteimprove