Server Information
Content Delivery Network
This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.
Apache
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
Content Management Systems
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including The website.
Analytics and Tracking
comScore
Market research company that studies internet trends and behavior.
Quantcast Measurement
Provides Quantcast with tracking information about your site which anyone can access and view demographic information.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.
JavaScript Libraries
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
Facebook SDK
JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.
jQuery
JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Widgets
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Twitter Widget
Adds twitter to The website, this includes the user of a twitter badge, blogger javascript or anything from widgets.twimg.com.
Facebook Like Box
The use of a fan page Like box Facebook page integration.
Content Delivery Network
Twitter CDN
This page contains content sourced from the Twitter CDN, either by the use of Widgets or linking to image content on twimg.com currently hosted by Akamai and Amazon.
AJAX Libraries API
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries.
Akamai
Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.
Facebook CDN
This page has content that links to the Facebook content delivery network.
Aggregation Functionality
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
Document Information
HTML5 DocType
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
Viewport Meta
This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
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
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon
This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.
OpenSearch
The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications.
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.
Conditional Comments
The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser.
HTML 5 Specific Tags
This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.
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
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.