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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.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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.

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

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.

The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.

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.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Acquia provides Drupal hosting.

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

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

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

DigitalOcean is a US-based web hosting provider.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

Akamai provides a content delivery network. This includes the former brands Instart Logic and StackPath.

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

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

Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.

Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.

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.

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

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.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Ahrefs Web Analytics is a free web analytics service.

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

Lucky Orange is a website visitor tracking platform.

Siteimprove is a web governance software, that includes a web analytics module.

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

Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) is an advertising networks for ads served on the web, mobile and tablets.

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

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

AddToAny is a social bookmarking and sharing service.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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.

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/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.

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.

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.

WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.

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