Findmypast Stack

Findmypast.co.uk 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.

Mobile

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 Standards

Open Graph Protocol

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

Twitter Cards

Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content.

Meta Description

The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page 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.

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

Canonical Content Tag

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

HREF Lang

Contains language specific links.

Javascript

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

JSON-LD

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

Referrer Policy

Requests made from a document, and for navigations away from that document are associated with a Referrer header. This policy determines in the browser should send a referrer or not.

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.

Strict Transport Security

The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header instructs the browser to only use https.

Language

Australia HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Australia 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.

United States HREF LANG

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

SSL Certificates

HSTS

Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.