IG Group Stack

Ig.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

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 Keywords

Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.

Meta Description

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

Meta Robot

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

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.

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.

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.

JSON-LD

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

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.

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.

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.

Language

France HREF LANG

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

Italy HREF LANG

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

Japan HREF LANG

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

Spain HREF LANG

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

Portugal HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Portugal 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.

Singapore HREF LANG

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

Switzerland HREF LANG

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

Spain HREF LANG

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

Australia HREF LANG

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

Austria HREF LANG

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

France HREF LANG

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

Switzerland HREF LANG

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

Sweden HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Sweden 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.

Norway HREF LANG

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

Netherlands HREF LANG

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

South Africa HREF LANG

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

Saudi Arabia HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Saudi Arabia 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.

Chinese HREF LANG

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

Germany HREF LANG

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

HongKong HREF LANG

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

SSL Certificates

HSTS

Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.