USA Today Stack

Usatoday.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.

Mobile

Viewport Meta

This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

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.

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 Description

The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.

Canonical Content Tag

Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.

Javascript

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

JSON-LD

JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, is a method of transporting Linked Data using JSON.

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.

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.

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.

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.