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

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.

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

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 between 1 and 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.

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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

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

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

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google.

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.

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

SoftLayer Technologies is a dedicated server, managed hosting and cloud computing provider owned by IBM.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Akamai is a content delivery network.

Commercial entities