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

Elementor is a WordPress-based website builder.

DSpace is an open source Java software package for creating open access repositories of digital content.

WPBakery is a WordPress-based web page builder.

Koha is an open-source library system written in Perl.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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

Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted language, nowadays also used to create web pages.

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.

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.

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java servlet container that functions as a web server, developed by the Apache Software Foundation

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

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

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

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

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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

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

Google Hosted Libraries (formerly called Google Libraries API) is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

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.

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.

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

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

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

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

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

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

Strict version of XHTML.

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.

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.

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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