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Concrete CMS (formerly Concrete5) is an open source content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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.

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.

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.

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

Bluehost is a US-based hosting provider owned by Newfold Digital.

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

Newfold Digital operates various web hosting brands.

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Bluehost is a US-based internet services provider owned by Newfold Digital.

The Producers provide domain name registration and web hosting. This includes the Directnic and Fabulous brands.

Spam Experts is an email service provider owned by N-able.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

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.

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.

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

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

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Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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

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Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

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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.

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.

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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