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Site Info - Medium.com

Overview of web technologies used by Medium.com.

Website Background

Medium – Where good ideas find you.
Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.

Description on Homepage

Top 1k among all websites

Popularity rank

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

Medium is a hosted publishing platform.

Medium
used on a subdomain

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby
used on a subdomain

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

JavaScript
used on a subdomain

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
used on a subdomain

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Server

Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.

Envoy

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

Node.js
used on a subdomain

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

Medium is a hosted publishing platform.

Medium
used on a subdomain
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io, see details

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Cloudflare

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Gmail

Zendesk provides hosted customer service software.

Zendesk
used on a subdomain

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

DigiCert

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

IdenTrust
used on a subdomain

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

jsDelivr
used on a subdomain

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

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-respecting website traffic analytics service.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

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

Google Ads
used until recently

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

Google Tag Manager

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

External CSS

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 a subdomain

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

Cookies expiring in months
used on a subdomain

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

HttpOnly Cookies
used on a subdomain

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

Secure Cookies
used on a subdomain

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Brotli Compression
used on a subdomain

A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.

Weak ETag
used on a subdomain

The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides amongst others a vastly larger address space than the preceding version 4. We consider a website to support IPv6 if a 128-bit address is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.

IPv6

HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.

HTTP/2

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

HTTP/3

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 use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Default protocol https

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.

Cookies expiring in years
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

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

JSON-LD

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

Generic RDFa

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

Microdata
used on a subdomain

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

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

SVG

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

JPEG
used on a subdomain

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 until recently

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