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Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

ColdFusion is a scripting language used for building web applications, developed by Adobe Systems.

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.

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

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

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

The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft.

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This includes Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux.

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

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

DNS Made Easy is a DNS service provider owned by DigiCert.

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

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.

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

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

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.

Microsoft Clarity is a website visitor tracking tool.

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open source web analytics program.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

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

Nexxen is an advertising and marketing platform. This includes the former brands Amobee, Turn, Adconion and RhythmOne.

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

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.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Deflate is a data compression algorithm.

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.

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 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.

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is a language to define web pages.

Transitional version of HTML.

XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is an extended version of the XHTML markup language for supporting RDF.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

ISO-8859-1 (informally also called Latin-1) is an 8-bit character set for Western European languages.

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.

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.

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

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