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Site Info - Ghost.org

Overview of web technologies used by Ghost.org.

Website Background

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

Description on Homepage

Top 100k among all websites

Popularity rank

Hugo is an open source static website generator written in Go.

Hugo 0.119.0
40% of sites use a newer version

Ghost is an open source blogging platform built on Node.js, originally developed by John O'Nolan.

Ghost 5.120
version 5.116 used until recently
18% of sites use a newer version
used on inner pages

Discourse is an open source discussion platform written in Ruby on Rails.

Discourse 3.5.0
version 3.4.0 used until recently
0% of sites use a newer version
used on a subdomain

Atlassian Statuspage is a hosted service for showing the status of services.

Atlassian Statuspage
used on a subdomain

Static websites don't use any server-side programming language for generating web pages, but deliver fixed content which is created manually or with an offline tool.

static files

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language.

JavaScript
used on inner pages

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby
used on a subdomain

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

JavaScript

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

jQuery 3.5.1
63% of sites use a newer version
used on inner pages

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.

Node.js
used on inner pages

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx
used on a subdomain

Netlify offers hosting for web applications and static websites.

Netlify

Atlassian offers a range of IT products and services.

Atlassian
used on a subdomain

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

Discourse
used on a subdomain
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

Amazon CloudFront
used on a subdomain

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Cloudflare

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Gmail

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

Discourse
used on a subdomain

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

Let’s Encrypt

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

CDNJS
used on inner pages

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

jsDelivr
used on inner pages

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

jQuery CDN
used on inner pages

unpkg is a JavaScript content delivery network for libraries that use the npm package manager.

unpkg
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.

Google Analytics
used on a subdomain

The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.

Google Ads
used on a subdomain

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

Google Tag Manager
used on a subdomain

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter/X
used on inner pages

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

External CSS

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Brotli Compression

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

A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.

Weak ETag
used on inner pages

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.

IPv6

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/.

Default protocol https

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression
used until recently

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.

Open Graph

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

Twitter/X Cards

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

JSON-LD

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Generic RDFa
used on inner pages

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

Microdata
used on a subdomain

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

HTML5

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

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

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

SVG

WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.

WebP

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG
used on inner pages

Organizations

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United States
Germany
Sweden
used on a subdomain
Austria
used on a subdomain
Czech Republic
used until recently
Finland
used until recently

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