CarGurus Stack

Cargurus.com is built with the following tech stack:

Document Standards

Meta Description

The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML

HREF Lang

Contains language specific links.

Canonical Content Tag

Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.

Web App Manifest

Defines the attributes of a web app in a simple JSON file. It describes how the web app should appear on the users system and how it should launch.

Javascript

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

Javascript Defer

The defer attribute gives a hint to the browser that the script does not create any content so the browser can optionally defer interpreting the script. This can improve performance by delaying execution of scripts until after the body content is parsed and rendered.

JSON-LD

JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, is a method of transporting Linked Data using JSON.

WAI-ARIA

A way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

HTML5 DocType

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

HTML 5 Specific Tags

This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.

X-XSS-Protection

X-XSS-Protection is a HTTP header set by Internet Explorer 8+. This header lets domains toggle on and off the "XSS Filter" of IE8, which prevents some categories of XSS attacks.

Content Type Options

Used to disable MIME-sniffing for a particular HTTP response.

Mobile

Apple Mobile Web App Capable

Launches a web application for Safari on iOS in full-screen mode to look like a native application.

Viewport Meta

This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon

This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.

Document Encoding

UTF-8

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

Language

United States HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in United States via the use of the hreflang tag.

United States HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in United States via the use of the hreflang tag.

Canada HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Canada via the use of the hreflang tag.

Canada HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Canada via the use of the hreflang tag.

United Kingdom HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in United Kingdom via the use of the hreflang tag.

Analytics and Tracking

Google Analytics

Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.