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Overview of web technologies used by W3.org.

Website Background

W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

Description on Homepage

Top 10k among all websites

Popularity rank

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

WordPress
used on inner pages

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

Atlassian Statuspage
used on a subdomain

MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker.

MediaWiki 1.42.3
used until recently

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

PHP
used on inner pages

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 1.7.2
used on inner pages

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

Underscore
used on inner pages

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.

Modernizr 1.7
used on inner pages

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

Backbone
used on inner pages

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Server

Atlassian offers a range of IT products and services.

Atlassian
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
used on a subdomain

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare

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

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

GlobalSign

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

Let’s Encrypt
used on a subdomain

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

DigiCert
used until recently

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
used on inner pages

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

Inline CSS

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

Cookies expiring in hours
used on inner pages

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

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

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 a subdomain

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

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 its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

Default subdomain www

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
used on inner pages

Microformats is a approach to semantic markup which uses (X)HTML tags to convey additional metadata.

Microformats
used on inner pages

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

Generic RDFa
used until recently

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

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

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
used on inner pages

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

WebP
used on inner pages

Organizations

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

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