Overview of web technologies used by Amazon.com.
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JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
React is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed by Facebook.
React
used on a subdomain
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.
Akamai is a content delivery network. This includes the former brands Instart Logic and StackPath.
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Fastly
used until recently
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Vercara (formerly Neustar) offers DNS services under the UltraDNS brand, owned by DigiCert.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Verisign is an SSL certificate authority owned by DigiCert.
Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.
Starfield
used on a subdomain
Adobe Analytics is a web site traffic analysis service formerly called Omniture. Its products include SiteCatalyst, WebSideStory and Hitbox.
Adobe Analytics
used on a subdomain
Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.
The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
Google Ads
used on a subdomain
External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.
Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.
Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.
Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.
HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
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.
HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.
HTTP/2
used on inner pages
HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.
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 its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.
The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.
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.
Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.
Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
JSON-LD
used on a subdomain
HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.
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.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
SVG
used on a subdomain
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used until recently
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