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

wpForo is an open source forum software based on WordPress.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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

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.

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

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Proofpoint provides email protection and other IT security services.

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

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

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.

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

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open source web analytics program.

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-respecting website traffic analytics service.

Full Circle Studies collects information about general website visitation patterns as part of the ComScore market research.

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

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

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

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

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

PubMatic is a marketing automation software provider.

Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) is an advertising network.

PulsePoint (formerly Adsdaq and ContextWeb) is an advertising exchange service.

Media.net is an advertising network powering the Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads program.

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.

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.

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

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.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

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.

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.

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

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.

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.

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

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

ICO is an image file format for computer icons, originally used in Microsoft Windows, on the Web often used for favicons.

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