Recent Technology Changes in ons.gov.uk

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Technologies in use by ons.gov.uk

Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Websites using Amazon technologies

Websites using Google technologies

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript.

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange and polar chart types.

Google Tag Manager makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags including analytics, remarketing, and more.

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

A rich hosted Exchange environment for every user without having to manage a server.

Enyo is a JavaScript app framework enabling developers to build native-quality HTML5 apps that run everywhere.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.