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Overview of web technologies used by Buzzfeed.com.

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BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.

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JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

JavaScript

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

jQuery 2.1.1
74% of sites use a newer version
used on inner pages

Svelte is an open-source web front end framework created by Rich Harris.

Svelte
used on inner pages

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.

Node.js

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Fastly

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Amazon

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Gmail

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

GlobalSign

Google Hosted Libraries (formerly called Google Libraries API) is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

Google Hosted Libraries
used on inner pages

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

jsDelivr
used until recently

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. This includes the Ads conversion tracking and the Floodlight services.

Google Analytics

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Full Circle Studies
used on inner pages

Nielsen provides web site visitor tracking services. This includes the former brand NetRatings.

Nielsen
used on inner pages

Lotame Crowd Control is an analytics package to measure social media behavior for publishers and advertisers.

Lotame
used until recently

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Chartbeat
used until recently

The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.

Google Ads

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

Amazon Associates
used on inner pages

Awin (formerly Zanox and Affiliate Window) is an affiliate marketing network. This includes the former brand Affilinet.

Awin
used on inner pages

CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is an online advertising and affiliate marketing service by Conversant.

CJ Affiliate
used on inner pages

Skimlinks is an advertising service, that inserts affiliate links into webpages.

Skimlinks
used on inner pages

Rakuten Advertising (formerly Rakuten Affiliate Network and LinkShare) is an advertising network.

Rakuten Advertising
used on inner pages

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

OpenX
used until recently

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

Google Tag Manager

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

Facebook
used on inner pages

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

Twitter
used on inner pages

The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest.

Pinterest
used on inner pages

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

External CSS
used on inner pages

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies
used on inner pages

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Cookies expiring in days

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.

Cookies expiring in months

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Brotli Compression

A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.

Strong ETag

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

HTTP Strict Transport Security

The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

Default subdomain www

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Default protocol https

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression
used until recently

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Open Graph

Twitter Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

Twitter Cards

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Generic RDFa

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

JSON-LD
used on inner pages

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

HTML5

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

PNG

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

SVG

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF
used on inner pages

Commercial entities

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