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GitBook is a hosted documentation system, publishing documentation as web pages.

Discourse is an open source discussion platform written in Ruby on Rails.

RapidWeaver is a website design software for the Mac.

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

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

Static websites don't use any server-side programming language for generating web pages, but deliver fixed content which is created manually or with an offline tool.

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

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a JavaScript library for HTML5 animations.

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

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.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

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.

Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.

Vercel (formerly Zeit) offers hosting for web applications and static websites.

GitBook is a hosted documentation system.

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

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

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Fastmail is a provider of email services.

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

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.

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.

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-respecting website traffic analytics service.

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.

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

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.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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.

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

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

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

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

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.

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