Overview of web technologies used by Sciencealert.com.
Website Background
ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
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WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.
Server-side Programming Language
PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.
Client-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.
jQuery 3.7.1
0% of sites use a newer version
Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.
Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.
Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.
Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.
Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.
Linux
used until recently
Kinsta provides managed WordPress hosting.
WP Engine provides managed WordPress hosting.
WP Engine
used until recently
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io, see details
Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.
Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.
Gmail is the email service provided by Google.
GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.
Let’s Encrypt
used until recently
Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. This includes the Ads conversion tracking and the Floodlight services.
Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.
The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.
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.
Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.
Cookies expiring in hours
used on inner pages
HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
used on inner pages
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
used on inner pages
Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.
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/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.
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.
Generic RDFa
used on inner pages
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.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.
GIF
used on inner pages
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