Discovery.com 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
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.
SSL Certificates
HSTS
Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.