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

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

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

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash and now part of Adobe Animate CC) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

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

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

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

ASP.NET Ajax is a JavaScript library based on ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft.

Materialize is a responsive front-end framework based on material design.

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.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

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

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Pagely provides managed WordPress hosting.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

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

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

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

Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security 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.

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

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

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.

Microsoft Clarity is a website visitor tracking tool.

Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

Plausible is a lightweight, open source website analytics tool.

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

Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft. This includes the former brands Xandr, AppNexus, Aquantive and others.

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

Adobe DTM (Dynamic Tag Management) is a tag management system by Adobe, part of Abode Analytics. This includes Satellite, previously owned by Search Discovery, and Adobe TagManager.

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.

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 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.

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.

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