Some websites (believe it or not, and I wouldn't recommend it) disable magnification on an ipad, but normally of course you can pinch or ?? (what do you call the opposite of pinch) to change the zoom level of any webpage on an iOS device.
This tag will disable the ability to zoom a webpage due to the last parameter.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
You can read all about
the viewport here.