Newsstand Stack

Newsstand.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.

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.

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.

Javascript

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

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.

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

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.

X-XSS-Protection

X-XSS-Protection is a HTTP header set by Internet Explorer 8+. This header lets domains toggle on and off the "XSS Filter" of IE8, which prevents some categories of XSS attacks.

Content Type Options

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

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.

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.

SSL Certificates

HSTS

Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.