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Gatsby is an open source static website generator based on React and GraphQL.

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

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

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

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.

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

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

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

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Netlify offers hosting for web applications and static websites.

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.

NS1 provides managed and private DNS services, owned by IBM.

easyDNS is a Canadian web hosting and internet services provider.

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

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

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.

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

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.

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.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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.

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 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.

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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