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PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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

Amazon Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Amazon and primarily designed for AWS, originally based on CentOS/RHEL.

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

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

Heart Internet is a UK-based web hosting provider owned by Your.Online.

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

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

Heart Internet is a UK-based web hosting provider owned by Your.Online.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

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

Host Europe is a German internet services provider owned by GoDaddy Group.

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

Heart Internet is a UK-based internet services provider owned by Host Your.Online.

Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

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.

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

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 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.

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.

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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