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Pandoc is a document converter, able to generate HTML files.

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.

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

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

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

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

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 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 Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

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.

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