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

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.

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

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

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

Jetty is an open source Java-based HTTP server and servlet container by Mort Bay Consulting.

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

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

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

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.

Microsoft Clarity is a website visitor tracking tool.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

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

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.

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