Overview of web technologies used by Wordpress.org.
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WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.
WordPress 6.9
version 6.8 used until recently
0% of sites use a newer version
bbPress is an open source forum software based on WordPress.
bbPress
used on inner pages
WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce platform based on WordPress.
WooCommerce
used on a subdomain
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
used on inner pages
Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.
Underscore
used on inner pages
React is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed by Facebook.
React
used on inner pages
Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.
Moment.js
used on inner pages
Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.
Backbone
used on inner pages
Lodash is a JavaScript utility library delivering modularity.
Lodash
used on a subdomain
Popper is an open source JavaScript library for tooltips and popovers.
Popper
used on a subdomain
Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.
HorizonIQ, formerly Internap, is a web hosting provider headquartered in USA. This includes the former SingleHop brand.
Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.
Automattic
used on a subdomain
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HorizonIQ, formerly Internap, is a web hosting provider headquartered in USA. This includes the former SingleHop brand.
Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.
Automattic
used on a subdomain
Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.
Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.
Gmail is the email service provided by Google.
Gmail
used on a subdomain
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.
Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.
Sectigo
used on a subdomain
WordPress Jetpack Stats is a visitor tracking plugin for the WordPress publishing platform.
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 inner pages
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 between 1 month and 1 year.
Cookies expiring in months
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
Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.
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 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.
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.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
JPEG
used on inner pages
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
WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.
WebP
used on inner pages
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