Cornell.edu is built with the following tech stack:
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.
Document Standards
X-UA-Compatible
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Meta Robot
This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.
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
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.
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.
Content Type Options
Used to disable MIME-sniffing for a particular HTTP response.
Mobile
Viewport Meta
This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.
Analytics and Tracking
Google Analytics
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