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Joomla is an open source content management system, based on PHP and MySQL, originally forked from Mambo.

Moodle is a web-based open source course management system based on PHP.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology on the .NET framework.

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.

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

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

MooTools (My Object-Oriented Tools) is a modular, object-oriented JavaScript framework, originally developed by Valerio Proietti.

Popper is an open source JavaScript library for tooltips and popovers.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a JavaScript library developed by Yahoo. The YUI library is no longer actively maintained.

MathJax is a JavaScript engine for displaying mathematical formulas.

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

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

CentOS is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Emailsrvr.com is an email hosting service provided by Rackspace.

GoDaddy is an IT service provider, among others operating as SSL certificate authority. This includes ValiCert certificates, now operated by GoDaddy.

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

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.

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.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

ICO is an image file format for computer icons, originally used in Microsoft Windows, on the Web often used for favicons.

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