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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.

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

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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.

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.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

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

React is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed by Facebook.

Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.

Vue.js is a JavaScript library for building interactive web interfaces, based on the Model View ViewModel pattern.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

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

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.

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution.

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

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

WP Engine provides managed WordPress hosting.

Netlify offers hosting for web applications and static websites.

Platform.sh provides web hosting and PaaS infrastructure for web applications.

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

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

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

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.

Entrust is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority. This includes the former brand AffirmTrust.

Google Hosted Libraries (formerly called Google Libraries API) is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

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.

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network hosts popular third party JavaScript libraries, provided by Microsoft.

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.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

WordPress Jetpack Stats is a visitor tracking plugin for the WordPress publishing platform.

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

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

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.

The WhatsApp share button allows users to share content with their WhatsApp contacts.

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.

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

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.

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 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 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/.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

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.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

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

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.

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

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

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