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Overview of web technologies used by Skysports.com.

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Sky Sports - Sports News, Transfers, Scores | Watch Live Sport
Watch the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores.

Description on Homepage

Top 10k among all websites

Popularity rank

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

JavaScript

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx
used on a subdomain

Akamai is a content delivery network. This includes the former brands Instart Logic and StackPath.

Akamai

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

Amazon CloudFront
used on a subdomain
hosting info partly based on data from ipinfo.io

Vercara (formerly Neustar) offers DNS services under the UltraDNS brand.

Vercara UltraDNS

Mimecast is a cyber security company providing email services headquartered in the UK.

Mimecast

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.

Microsoft
used until recently

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

DigiCert

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.

Sectigo
used on a subdomain

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

Chartbeat

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
used on a subdomain

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

Google Ads

SeedTag is an advertising network focusing on contextual ads.

SeedTag
used on inner pages

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

Google Tag Manager

Adobe DTM (Dynamic Tag Management) is a tag management system by Adobe, part of Abode Analytics. This includes Satellite, previously owned by Search Discovery, and Adobe TagManager.

Adobe DTM

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

Facebook
used on inner pages

The WhatsApp share button allows users to share content with their WhatsApp contacts.

WhatsApp
used on inner pages

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

Twitter/X
used until recently

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
used on inner pages

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

Inline CSS

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

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

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

HTTP/2

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

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
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

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

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

Twitter/X Cards
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

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 a subdomain

Commercial entities

.com

United Kingdom
United States
used on a subdomain
Germany
used on a subdomain
Sweden
used on a subdomain
Austria
used on a subdomain

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