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Site Info - Observer.com

Overview of web technologies used by Observer.com.

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News, data and insight about the powerful forces that shape the world. | Observer
News, data and insight about the powerful forces that shape the world.

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 6.5.6
version 6.5.5 used until recently
79% of sites use a newer version

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

Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.

Backbone
used on inner pages

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

Nginx

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

Automattic
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io, see details

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

Automattic

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

Automattic

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

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

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

WordPress Jetpack

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies

Parse.ly is a web analytics service for large publishing sites.

Parse.ly

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

New Relic
used on inner pages

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

Google Ads

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

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

Twitter/X
used on inner pages

LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

LinkedIn
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

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

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

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

AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format.

AVIF
used until recently

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