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CommonSpot is a content management system based on ColdFusion, developed by PaperThin.

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

HubSpot offers a hosted content management system as part of its marketing and sales software.

ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, developed by Adobe Systems.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Popper is an open source JavaScript library for tooltips and popovers.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

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

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

WP Engine provides managed WordPress hosting.

HubSpot offers business software, including a hosted content management system.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.

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

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

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

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.

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

Siteimprove is a web governance software, that includes a web analytics module.

HubSpot Marketing Analytics is a web analytics tool by HubSpot.

TikTok Pixel allows to track website events with TikTok.

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

AdRoll is an advertising network for retargeting and other advertising formats.

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

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

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

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

AddToAny is a social bookmarking and sharing service.

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.

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of more than 10 years.

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

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

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

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

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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.

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

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.

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

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

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

Microformats is a approach to semantic markup which uses (X)HTML tags to convey additional metadata.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

Transitional version of XHTML.

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.

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