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RebelMouse is a hosted content management system.

Python is a general-purpose scripting language.

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.

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.

Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

Highcharts is a library for creating interactive charts.

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

RebelMouse is a hosted content management system.

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Rackspace is a managed cloud computing company based in USA. This includes the former Datapipe brand.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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

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.

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

Navegg is an open and free website tracking system generating demographic visitor profiles.

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

MGID is an advertising network specialized in native advertising.

Epsilon (formerly Conversant and ValueClick) provides an advertising network.

Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) is an advertising networks for ads served on the web, mobile and tablets.

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

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.

A Bluesky share button allows a Bluesky user to post content from the visited site.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.

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

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

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/.

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.

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.

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

ICO is an image file format for computer icons, originally used in Microsoft Windows, on the Web often used for favicons.

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