Recent Technology Changes in whitbread.co.uk

Technologies in use by whitbread.co.uk

Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Wordpress SEO Plugin

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

Wordpress plugin for popups

Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.

Akamai's EdgePlatform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. It is a network of more than 95,000 secure servers equipped with proprietary software and deployed in 71 countries.

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

Proofpoint provides companies protection and visibility for their employees.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Carousel JavaScript solution

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

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

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

Websites using Google technologies

Embedded videos from Vimeo.

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

Contact form builder and lead data management plugin for WordPress.

DNS services provided by Akamai.

Akamai's network is one of the world's largest distributed-computing platforms, responsible for serving 30 percent of all web traffic.

LiteSpeed web server is a light-weight server which conserves resources without sacrificing performance, security, compatibility, or convenience. It is capable of handling multiple concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage.

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

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

A web page. Every web page is implicitly assumed to be declared to be of type WebPage, so the various properties about that webpage, such as breadcrumb may be used. We recommend explicit declaration if these properties are specified, but if they are found outside of an itemscope, they will be assumed to be about the page

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

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.

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.

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

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

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