Gothamist Stack

Gothamist.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.

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

Meta Description

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Srcset

Adapting images for high-resolution and low-resolution displays.

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 Security Policy

Content Security Policy is a computer security concept, to prevent cross-site scripting XSS attacks.

Report URI CSP

Report-uri directive instructs the user agent to report attempts to violate the Content Security Policy.

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.

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.

SSL Certificates

HSTS

Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.