Technology history for theobserver.ca
Stack size over time
From 3 detected technologies in Apr 2018 to 62 in Jun 2026 (peak 64).
Currently detected
- comScore since Apr 2018
- Google Tag Manager since Jun 2018
- jQuery since Jun 2018
- Google Analytics since Jun 2018
- jQuery UI since Jun 2018
- Modernizr since Jun 2018
- reCAPTCHA since Jun 2018
- Criteo since Jan 2019
- Prebid since Jan 2019
- Nginx since Jan 2019
- AppNexus since Jun 2020
- Cart Functionality since Aug 2020
- Google Font API since Feb 2021
- Google Publisher Tag since Feb 2021
- Linkedin Insight Tag since Feb 2021
- Twitter Ads since May 2021
- Amazon Advertising since Jun 2021
- OpenX since Jul 2021
- Facebook Pixel since Jul 2021
- core-js since Sep 2021
- Google Cloud since Oct 2021
- LoginRadius since Nov 2021
- mParticle since Nov 2021
- Amazon ALB since Dec 2021
- Amazon Web Services since Dec 2021
- Sailthru since Dec 2021
- Parse.ly since Mar 2022
- Permutive since Mar 2022
- Google Cloud CDN since Apr 2022
- Marfeel since Jun 2022
- Cloudflare since Jun 2022
- Cloudflare Bot Management since Jun 2022
- OpenResty since Aug 2022
- Knockout.js since Aug 2022
- Adobe Audience Manager since Aug 2022
- Amazon SES since Aug 2022
- Apache HTTP Server since Aug 2022
- Bootstrap since Aug 2022
- cdnjs since Aug 2022
- Lodash since Aug 2022
- Sendgrid since Aug 2022
- Zendesk since Aug 2022
- Open Graph since Sep 2022
- FlexSlider since Sep 2022
- HSTS since Sep 2022
- HTTP/3 since Sep 2022
- Rubicon Project since Nov 2022
- PubMatic since Dec 2022
- RSS since Dec 2022
- Viafoura since Jan 2023
- jsDelivr since Feb 2023
- Envoy since Jun 2023
- Snowplow Analytics since Jul 2023
- 33Across since Nov 2023
- LiveIntent since Sep 2024
- ID5 since Sep 2024
- Django since Nov 2024
- Confiant since Nov 2024
- Python since Nov 2024
- Infolinks since Jul 2025
- Priority Hints since Dec 2025
- Tapad since Dec 2025
Previously used
- FullContact Sep 2024 to Mar 2026 · 1 yr
- Microsoft ASP.NET Sep 2023 to Jan 2026 · 2 yrs
- Htmx Sep 2023 to Oct 2024 · 1 yr
- New Relic Aug 2022 to Aug 2024 · 2 yrs
- Integral Ad Science Feb 2022 to May 2024 · 2 yrs
- JW Player Jan 2024 to Jan 2024 · 1 mo
- DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) Apr 2018 to Jul 2023 · 5 yrs
- Sovrn Jul 2021 to May 2023 · 1 yr
- C Feb 2023 to Feb 2023 · 1 mo
- Salesforce Audience Studio Sep 2021 to Sep 2022 · 1 yr
- Google Ads Conversion Tracking Aug 2021 to Aug 2022 · 1 yr
- District M Jul 2021 to May 2022 · 10 mo
- Google Remarketing Tag Mar 2022 to May 2022 · 2 mo
- Facebook Jun 2018 to Apr 2022 · 3 yrs
- Twitter Analytics May 2021 to Apr 2022 · 11 mo
- Google AdSense Jun 2018 to Nov 2021 · 3 yrs
- Wheelio Sep 2021 to Oct 2021 · 1 mo
- React Jan 2019 to Aug 2021 · 2 yrs
- Webpack Jul 2021 to Aug 2021 · 1 mo
- Ad Lightning Jun 2021 to Jun 2021 · 1 mo
- Automattic Mar 2020 to Dec 2020 · 9 mo
- jQuery Migrate Jan 2019 to Dec 2020 · 1 yr
- MySQL Jan 2019 to Dec 2020 · 1 yr
- PHP Jan 2019 to Dec 2020 · 1 yr
- Quantcast Choice Aug 2020 to Dec 2020 · 4 mo
- Quantcast Measure Jun 2018 to Dec 2020 · 2 yrs
- WordPress Jan 2019 to Dec 2020 · 1 yr
- Babel Mar 2020 to Aug 2020 · 5 mo
- YouTube Mar 2019 to Aug 2020 · 1 yr
- Chartbeat Jun 2018 to Jul 2018 · 1 mo
- Disqus Jun 2018 to Jul 2018 · 1 mo
- Google Plus Jun 2018 to Jul 2018 · 1 mo
- Varnish Apr 2018 to Jul 2018 · 3 mo
Timeline
2026 2 dropped
- dropped FullContact May 2026 · Analytics
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Apr 2026 · Web frameworks
2025 9 added · 2 dropped
- added Amazon ALB Dec 2025 · Load balancers
- added Priority Hints Dec 2025 · Performance
- added Tapad Dec 2025 · Advertising
- added Twitter Ads Oct 2025 · Advertising
- added Confiant Jul 2025 · Security
- added Infolinks Jul 2025 · Advertising
- added Microsoft ASP.NET Jul 2025 · Web frameworks
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Jun 2025 · Web frameworks
- dropped Confiant May 2025 · Security
- added Adobe Audience Manager Feb 2025 · Segmentation
- added Microsoft ASP.NET Jan 2025 · Web frameworks
2024 7 added · 7 dropped
- dropped Htmx Dec 2024 · JavaScript libraries
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Dec 2024 · Web frameworks
- added Confiant Nov 2024 · Security
- added Django Nov 2024 · Web frameworks
- added Python Nov 2024 · Programming languages
- added Microsoft ASP.NET Oct 2024 · Web frameworks
- dropped New Relic Oct 2024 · RUM
- dropped Integral Ad Science Jul 2024 · Advertising
- dropped Adobe Audience Manager Mar 2024 · Segmentation
- dropped JW Player Mar 2024 · Video players
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Feb 2024 · Web frameworks
- added Adobe Audience Manager Jan 2024 · Segmentation
- added JW Player Jan 2024 · Video players
- added Snowplow Analytics Jan 2024 · IaaS
2023 10 added · 6 dropped · 1 switched
- added Microsoft ASP.NET Dec 2023 · Web frameworks
- switched DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) 33Across Nov 2023 · Advertising
- dropped Microsoft ASP.NET Nov 2023 · Web frameworks
- dropped Adobe Audience Manager Oct 2023 · Segmentation
- dropped Amazon ALB Sep 2023 · Load balancers
- added Htmx Sep 2023 · JavaScript libraries
- added Microsoft ASP.NET Sep 2023 · Web frameworks
- dropped Snowplow Analytics Sep 2023 · IaaS
- added Snowplow Analytics Jul 2023 · IaaS
- dropped Sovrn Jul 2023 · Advertising
- added Adobe Audience Manager Jun 2023 · Segmentation
- added Envoy Jun 2023 · Reverse proxies
- added Amazon ALB May 2023 · Load balancers
- dropped C Apr 2023 · Programming languages
- added C Feb 2023 · Programming languages
- added jsDelivr Feb 2023 · CDN
- added Viafoura Jan 2023 · Segmentation
2022 12 added · 7 dropped · 4 switched
- dropped Adobe Audience Manager Dec 2022 · Segmentation
- dropped Google Ads Conversion Tracking Dec 2022 · Analytics
- dropped Linkedin Insight Tag Dec 2022 · Analytics
- added PubMatic Dec 2022 · Advertising
- added RSS Dec 2022 · Miscellaneous
- dropped Salesforce Audience Studio Dec 2022 · Segmentation
- dropped Twitter Ads Dec 2022 · Advertising
- switched Facebook FlexSlider Sep 2022 · Widgets
- added HSTS Sep 2022 · Security
- added HTTP/3 Sep 2022 · Miscellaneous
- added Open Graph Sep 2022 · Miscellaneous
- added Adobe Audience Manager Aug 2022 · Segmentation
- dropped Amazon ALB Aug 2022 · Load balancers
- dropped Google Remarketing Tag Jul 2022 · Retargeting
- added Cloudflare Jun 2022 · CDN
- added Cloudflare Bot Management Jun 2022 · Security
- switched District M Marfeel Jun 2022 · Advertising
- added Google Cloud CDN Apr 2022 · CDN
- added reCAPTCHA Apr 2022 · Security
- added Google Remarketing Tag Mar 2022 · Retargeting
- switched Twitter Analytics Parse.ly Mar 2022 · Analytics
- added Permutive Mar 2022 · Miscellaneous
- switched Google AdSense Integral Ad Science Feb 2022 · Advertising
2021 20 added · 14 dropped · 3 switched
- added Amazon ALB Dec 2021 · Load balancers
- added Amazon Web Services Dec 2021 · PaaS
- added Sailthru Dec 2021 · Email
- switched Wheelio LoginRadius Nov 2021 · Widgets
- added mParticle Nov 2021 · Customer data platform
- added Google Cloud Oct 2021 · CDN
- dropped Webpack Oct 2021 · Miscellaneous
- switched React core-js Sep 2021 · JavaScript libraries
- added Salesforce Audience Studio Sep 2021 · Segmentation
- added Wheelio Sep 2021 · Widgets
- dropped Ad Lightning Aug 2021 · Advertising
- added Google Ads Conversion Tracking Aug 2021 · Analytics
- added Cart Functionality Jul 2021 · Ecommerce
- added Criteo Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added District M Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added Facebook Pixel Jul 2021 · Analytics
- added Google AdSense Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added OpenX Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added Prebid Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added Sovrn Jul 2021 · Advertising
- added Webpack Jul 2021 · Miscellaneous
- added Ad Lightning Jun 2021 · Advertising
- added Amazon Advertising Jun 2021 · Advertising
- dropped Cart Functionality Jun 2021 · Ecommerce
- added Twitter Ads May 2021 · Advertising
- switched Quantcast Measure Twitter Analytics May 2021 · Analytics
- dropped AppNexus Mar 2021 · Advertising
- dropped Automattic Mar 2021 · PaaS
- dropped Criteo Mar 2021 · Advertising
- dropped Google AdSense Mar 2021 · Advertising
- dropped jQuery Mar 2021 · JavaScript libraries
- dropped jQuery Migrate Mar 2021 · JavaScript libraries
- dropped MySQL Mar 2021 · Databases
- dropped PHP Mar 2021 · Programming languages
- dropped Prebid Mar 2021 · Advertising
- dropped Quantcast Choice Mar 2021 · Cookie compliance
- dropped WordPress Mar 2021 · Blogs
2020 6 added · 4 dropped
- dropped DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) Dec 2020 · Advertising
- dropped Babel Oct 2020 · Miscellaneous
- dropped YouTube Oct 2020 · Video players
- added Cart Functionality Aug 2020 · Ecommerce
- added Quantcast Choice Aug 2020 · Cookie compliance
- added AppNexus Jun 2020 · Advertising
- added Google AdSense Jun 2020 · Advertising
- dropped Google AdSense Apr 2020 · Advertising Networks
- added Automattic Mar 2020 · PaaS
- added Babel Mar 2020 · Miscellaneous
2019 15 added · 7 dropped · 1 switched
- added Criteo Mar 2019 · Advertising Networks
- added DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) Mar 2019 · Advertising Networks
- switched Google Plus Facebook Mar 2019 · Widgets
- added Google AdSense Mar 2019 · Advertising Networks
- added Google Analytics Mar 2019 · Analytics
- added Google Tag Manager Mar 2019 · Tag Managers
- added jQuery Mar 2019 · JavaScript Libraries
- added jQuery Migrate Mar 2019 · JavaScript Libraries
- added MySQL Mar 2019 · Databases
- added Nginx Mar 2019 · Web Servers
- added PHP Mar 2019 · Programming Languages
- added Prebid Mar 2019 · Advertising Networks
- added Quantcast Measure Mar 2019 · Analytics
- added React Mar 2019 · JavaScript Frameworks
- added WordPress Mar 2019 · CMS
- added YouTube Mar 2019 · Video Players
- dropped Chartbeat Feb 2019 · Analytics
- dropped comScore Feb 2019 · Analytics
- dropped Disqus Feb 2019 · Comment Systems
- dropped jQuery UI Feb 2019 · JavaScript Frameworks
- dropped Modernizr Feb 2019 · JavaScript Frameworks
- dropped reCAPTCHA Feb 2019 · Captchas
- dropped Varnish Feb 2019 · Cache Tools
2018 12 added
- added Chartbeat Jun 2018 · Analytics
- added Disqus Jun 2018 · Comment Systems
- added Facebook Jun 2018 · Widgets
- added Google AdSense Jun 2018 · Advertising Networks
- added Google Analytics Jun 2018 · Analytics
- added Google Plus Jun 2018 · Widgets
- added Google Tag Manager Jun 2018 · Tag Managers
- added jQuery Jun 2018 · JavaScript Frameworks
- added jQuery UI Jun 2018 · JavaScript Frameworks
- added Modernizr Jun 2018 · JavaScript Frameworks
- added Quantcast Measure Jun 2018 · Analytics
- added reCAPTCHA Jun 2018 · Captchas