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SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft.

Atypon Experience Platform (formerly Literatum) is a hosted ePublishing platform.

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

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.

React is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed by Facebook.

ASP.NET Ajax is a JavaScript library based on ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

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

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

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

The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

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

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

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

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Network Solutions is a US-based provider of internet services owned by Newfold Digital.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

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.

Google Hosted Libraries (formerly called Google Libraries API) is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

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

unpkg is a JavaScript content delivery network for libraries that use the npm package manager.

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

The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network hosts popular third party JavaScript libraries, provided by Microsoft.

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.

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

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-respecting website traffic analytics service.

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

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.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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 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/.

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

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

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.

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.

The Dublin Core Schema is a set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources and physical resources.

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.

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

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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