Overview of web technologies used by Spotify.com.
Website Background
Spotify - Web Player: Music for everyone
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
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Server-side Programming Language
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language.
JavaScript
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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 3.6.0
57% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain
Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.
Bootstrap
used on a subdomain
Next.js is an open source JavaScript framework based on React and Node.js.
Next.js
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Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.
Bootstrap
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Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.
The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache
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Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.
Node.js
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Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
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hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io
Google provides various services to run on its servers.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
used on a subdomain
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.
Amazon CloudFront
used on a subdomain
Google provides various services to run on its servers.
NS1 provides managed and private DNS services, owned by IBM.
Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
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Gmail is the email service provided by Google.
Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.
DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.
DigiCert
used on a subdomain
JavaScript Content Delivery Network
jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.
jsDelivr
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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.
Google Analytics
used on a subdomain
Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.
Hotjar
used on a subdomain
Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.
Full Circle Studies
used until recently
The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
Google Ads
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The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.
Google Tag Manager
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.
Session Cookies
used on a subdomain
Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.
Cookies expiring in hours
used on a subdomain
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.
Cookies expiring in days
used on a subdomain
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.
Cookies expiring in months
used on a subdomain
Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.
Cookies expiring in years
used on a subdomain
HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain
Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.
Non-HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain
Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain
Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.
Non-Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.
Strong ETag
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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
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HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.
HTTP/3
used on a subdomain
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 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.
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.
PNG
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
SVG
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JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
JPEG
used until recently
Commercial entities
United States
Germany
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Austria
used on a subdomain
Netherlands
used until recently
Finland
used until recently
Sweden
used until recently
English
Spanish
German
Japanese
French
Italian
Dutch, Flemish
Polish
Turkish
Chinese
Indonesian
Czech
Hungarian
Swedish
Greek
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