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WoltLab Suite Forum (formerly Burning Board) is a forum software written in PHP by Woltlab.

IPS Community Suite (formerly called IP.Board) is a set of applications for community websites based on PHP, developed by Invision Power.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

23media is a German web hosting and cloud services provider.

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

23media is a German web hosting and cloud services provider.

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

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

United Domains is a German domain registrar and web hosting provider owned by United Internet.

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

United Domains is a German domain registrar and web hosting provider owned by United Internet.

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.

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

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

Awin (formerly Zanox and Affiliate Window) is an affiliate marketing network. This includes the former brands Affilinet and ShareASale.

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

AdButler is a cloud-based advertising network.

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

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

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.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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/.

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

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.

WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

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.

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