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Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by rvdm » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

Hillary also uses Webfonts by Hoefler, Modernizr, jQuery, Google Analytics, Font Awesome and possible a heavily modified version of Bootstrap.

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by pen2l » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

maxcasey wrote: post #31

Have you thought about adding fields for design/consulting firm and CRM? Looks like Hillary is on Salesforce and Cruz is using (and probably overpaying) for Marketo. The consultants are almost more interesting if you know the industry though. It looks like all the candidates built their sites internally, except for Rubio who is using Push Digital. Will be interesting to see which strategy works better.

Any idea what agency Clinton used to have the announcement video made? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4 ). Any idea on how much such a thing costs?

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by rvdm » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

Google Pagespeed: hillaryclinton.com 52 (Desktop) / 41 (Mobile) tedcruz.org 69 / 52 randpaul.com 59 / 44 marcorubio.com 76 / 51

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

#44

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

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Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by dmix » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

This chart might be incorrect for https://www.hillaryclinton.com, BuiltWith shows it is using:

- Microsoft IIS 8 for a server

- ASP.NET

https://builtwith.com/hillaryclinton.com

No mention of python.

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by pen2l » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #45

This chart might be incorrect for https://www.hillaryclinton.com , BuiltWith shows it is using: - Microsoft IIS 8 for a server - ASP.NET https://builtwith.com/hillaryclinton.com No mention of python.

Moreover, I'm very curious to know how one even finds out such things (whether they're running on some python framework or ISP.net, etc.). I'm thinking a basic nmap scan can tell what server they're using (actually I'll try that out right now and report results in a few)

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

#47

Post by tomd » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #45

This chart might be incorrect for https://www.hillaryclinton.com , BuiltWith shows it is using: - Microsoft IIS 8 for a server - ASP.NET https://builtwith.com/hillaryclinton.com No mention of python.

BuiltWith has cached results. Try

curl -I https://www.hillaryclinton.com/

curl -I https://www.hillaryclinton.com/api/oauth/token

Varnish in front of S3 and Tornado.

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by nullrouted » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #45

This chart might be incorrect for https://www.hillaryclinton.com , BuiltWith shows it is using: - Microsoft IIS 8 for a server - ASP.NET https://builtwith.com/hillaryclinton.com No mention of python.

Built with seems wrong, look at the server headers:

Requesting https://hillaryclinton.com

SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 154 Content-Type: text/html Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:07:59 GMT Location: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/ Server: nginx Connection: keep-alive Redirecting to: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/

SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:08:00 GMT Server: AmazonS3 x-amz-id-2: I7+Tzq0w7Vw6347QHmyedJZfIdyiX4nPiHvXxJw/sD89ltjuop0YG1LgCkf2fo3s x-amz-request-id: 49406508AC541A03 Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:36:32 GMT ETag: "112d7310ce2add1d77ec28c6ce824fe5" Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 26723 Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Varnish: 3579276881 3567651786 Via: 1.1 varnish Age: 1837

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by eastbayjake » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:10 PM UTC

maxcasey wrote: post #33

maxcasey wrote: post #31

Have you thought about adding fields for design/consulting firm and CRM? Looks like Hillary is on Salesforce and Cruz is using (and probably overpaying) for Marketo. The consultants are almost more interesting if you know the industry though. It looks like all the candidates built their sites internally, except for Rubio who is using Push Digital. Will be interesting to see which strategy works better.

FWIW, Dems seem to be outsourcing their digital needs more than Republicans. Looks like Bernie Sanders is with Wide Eye Creative and Martin O'Malley is with Blue State Digital. Potentially because there are many, many more successful Dem web firms (including one I work for lol) than there are Republican counter parts... Not sure though, just an interesting data point.

Which firms are your Republican counterparts?

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by maxcasey » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 5:20 PM UTC

pen2l wrote: post #42

maxcasey wrote: post #31

Have you thought about adding fields for design/consulting firm and CRM? Looks like Hillary is on Salesforce and Cruz is using (and probably overpaying) for Marketo. The consultants are almost more interesting if you know the industry though. It looks like all the candidates built their sites internally, except for Rubio who is using Push Digital. Will be interesting to see which strategy works better.

Any idea what agency Clinton used to have the announcement video made? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4 ). Any idea on how much such a thing costs?

I would assume they made the video internally, but I have no idea. If a firm did it then they'll probably be locked up with a lot of Hillary work this cycle so they don't need to promote themselves.

Those types of videos aren't cheap by any means. That being said I think it was done really well -- especially in comparison to announcement videos like Rubio's[0], which is a mess of random clips pasted together.

[0] https://marcorubio.com/landing/stream/