FlightAware Stack

Flightaware.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.

Twitter Cards

Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your 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

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

Javascript

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

Javascript Defer

The defer attribute gives a hint to the browser that the script does not create any content so the browser can optionally defer interpreting the script. This can improve performance by delaying execution of scripts until after the body content is parsed and rendered.

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.

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.

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.

Mobile Non Scaleable Content

This content is formatted for mobile devices, it does not allow the content to be scaled.

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 Kingdom HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in United Kingdom 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.

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.

Taiwan HREF LANG

This webpage has alternate versions available in Taiwan via the use of the hreflang tag.

Analytics and Tracking

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.

SSL Certificates

HSTS

Forces browsers to only communicate with the site using HTTPS.