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

Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

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

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.

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

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.

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

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

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.

The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.

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

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

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

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Acquia provides Drupal hosting.

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.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

MonsterInsights is a WordPress plugin for collecting Google Analytics and WordPress-specific analytics data.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

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.

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

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.

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

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 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/.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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