King County Stack

Kingcounty.gov 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.

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

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.

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.