Softonic.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 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
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
HREF Lang
Contains language specific links.
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
JSON-LD
JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, is a method of transporting Linked Data using JSON.
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.
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.
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.
Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon
This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.
Language
Saudi Arabia HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Saudi Arabia 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.
United States HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in United States 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.
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.
Korea HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Korea 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.
Poland HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Poland via the use of the hreflang tag.
Brazil HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Brazil via the use of the hreflang tag.
Russia HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Russia via the use of the hreflang tag.
Turkey HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in Turkey via the use of the hreflang tag.
China HREF LANG
This webpage has alternate versions available in China via the use of the hreflang tag.
SSL Certificates
HSTS
Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.