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WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce platform based on WordPress.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the visitors browser.

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a JavaScript library for HTML5 animations.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Hostinger is a web hosting provider and domain registrar. This includes its brands 000webhost, Hosting24, Niagahoster, Weblink and Zyro.

SiteGround is a web hosting provider headquartered in Bulgaria.

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

Hostinger is a web hosting provider and domain registrar.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

SiteGround is an internet services provider headquartered in Bulgaria.

Heart Internet is a UK-based internet services provider owned by Your.Online.

SiteGround is an internet services provider headquartered in Bulgaria.

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. This includes the Ads conversion tracking and the Floodlight services.

The WhatsApp share button allows users to share content with their WhatsApp contacts.

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest.

LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

Reddit Buttons allow web pages to be submitted to and discussed on Reddit.

Tumblr buttons make it easy for Tumblr bloggers to share content on their blogs.

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides amongst others a vastly larger address space than the preceding version 4. We consider a website to support IPv6 if a 128-bit address is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.

HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 day and 1 month.

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

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