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What is theverge.com built with?

The Verge — The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts

Tech stack

Scores

Verdict

The Verge is built on Next.js and React with WordPress in the backend, served through Fastly and Varnish for caching and performance. Its biggest strength is the modern, capable tech stack that enables fast server-side rendering and efficient content delivery at scale. The single most useful improvement would be adding missing security headers (X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy)—a straightforward change that would boost its D-grade security score.

Scanned 2026-10-30.

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About 110 fingerprints reveal frameworks, CMSs, hosting, CDNs, analytics, payments and more.

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Speed, security headers grade and CO₂ per visit, with a plain-English verdict and fixes.

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Questions

How do I find out what a website is built with?

Paste the address into Sniff. It fetches the page once and looks for the fingerprints that frameworks, CMSs, hosting providers, CDNs and analytics tools leave in the HTML, response headers, loaded files and cookies, then lists everything it recognises.

Is Sniff free?

Yes. Sniff is free, needs no sign-up and stores nothing about you. Reports for popular sites are cached for a week so they load instantly.

How is the carbon footprint calculated?

Sniff weighs every file the page loads and applies the Sustainable Web Design model: about 0.81 kWh per gigabyte transferred at the global average grid intensity of 494 g CO2e per kWh, then grades the result from A+ to F.

What does the security grade mean?

It checks six HTTP security headers (HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy), whether the site uses HTTPS with a valid certificate, and whether it reveals server versions.

Can I compare two websites?

Yes. Choose Compare two, enter both addresses and Sniff shows them head to head on speed, security, carbon, page weight and tech stack, with a winner.

What technologies can Sniff detect?

About 110, including Next.js, React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, AWS, Google Analytics, Stripe, Razorpay, Intercom and many more.