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Squarespace is a hosted web publishing platform originally developed by Anthony Casalena.

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

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

Elementor is a WordPress-based website builder.

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

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

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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.

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

The LiteSpeed Web Server is a lightweight web server by LiteSpeed Technologies.

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

Squarespace is a hosted web publishing platform.

Strato is a European web hosting provider headquartered in Berlin and owned by United Internet.

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

Squarespace is a hosted web publishing platform.

Strato is a European web hosting provider headquartered in Berlin and owned by United Internet.

Discourse offers managed hosting of its open source discussion platform.

Strato is a European internet services provider headquartered in Germany and owned by United Internet.

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

Strato is a European internet services provider headquartered in Germany and owned by United Internet.

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.

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

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-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.

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

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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/.

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.

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an experimental network protocol, originally designed by Google and submitted to IETF standardization.

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.

Microformats is a approach to semantic markup which uses (X)HTML tags to convey additional metadata.

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

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.

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