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

Fourthwall is a hosted e-commerce platform for creators.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language.

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

Next.js is an open source JavaScript framework based on React and Node.js.

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

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

Fourthwall is a hosted e-commerce platform for creators.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

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

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

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.

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

WordPress Jetpack Stats is a visitor tracking plugin for the WordPress publishing platform.

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Parse.ly is a web analytics service for large publishing sites.

Microsoft Clarity is a website visitor tracking tool.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

StatCounter is a free hit counter and real-time web tracker.

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

Skimlinks is an advertising service, that inserts affiliate links into webpages.

Nativo (formerly PostRelease) is a network for native advertising.

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is an online advertising and affiliate marketing service by Conversant.

Rakuten Advertising (formerly Rakuten Affiliate Network and LinkShare) is an advertising network.

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

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

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

The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest.

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 day and 1 month.

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.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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