Lafayette Stack

Lafayette.edu is built with the following tech stack:

Document Standards

Meta Robot

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

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.

Javascript

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

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 Type Options

Used to disable MIME-sniffing for a particular HTTP response.

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 App Capable

Launches a web application for Safari on iOS in full-screen mode to look like a native application.

IPhone / Mobile Compatible

The website contains code that allows the page to support IPhone / Mobile Content.

Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon

This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.