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PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.

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

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly 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.

Transitional version of XHTML.

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.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

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Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

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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.

The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

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

SuSE is a Linux distribution owned by Novell.

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