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Overview of web technologies used by Mg.co.za.

Website Background

The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future
The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence.

Description on Homepage

Top 100k among all websites

Popularity rank

WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress 6.6.1
version 6.5.5 used until recently
61% of sites use a newer version

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce platform based on WordPress.

WooCommerce
used on inner pages

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP

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 3.7.1
0% of sites use a newer version

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 until recently

Lodash is a JavaScript utility library delivering modularity.

Lodash
used until recently

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Server

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

Nginx
used until recently

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu
used until recently

Kinsta provides managed WordPress hosting.

Kinsta
used until recently
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io, see details

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Cloudflare

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Gmail

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

Let’s Encrypt

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

GlobalSign
used until recently

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

IdenTrust
used until recently

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

CDNJS

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

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

Meta Pixel

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

Hotjar

Hitsteps is a website analytics tool.

Hitsteps

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-respecting website traffic analytics service.

Cloudflare Web Analytics
used on inner pages

Lotame Crowd Control is an analytics package to measure social media behavior for publishers and advertisers.

Lotame
used on inner pages

WordPress Jetpack Stats is a visitor tracking plugin for the WordPress publishing platform.

WordPress Jetpack
used until recently

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

Google Ads

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

OpenX
used on inner pages

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

Google Tag Manager

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

Facebook
used on inner pages

The WhatsApp share button allows users to share content with their WhatsApp contacts.

WhatsApp
used on inner pages

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

Twitter
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

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies
used on inner pages

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 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.

Brotli Compression

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/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.

HTTP/2

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

HTTP/3

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Default protocol https

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours
used until recently

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days
used until recently

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

HttpOnly Cookies
used until recently

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies
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 Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

Twitter 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

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

Microdata

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

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

JPEG

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

SVG

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