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PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash and now part of Adobe Animate CC) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

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

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.

The Internet Information Services (IIS) are a set of Internet-based services for Windows, developed by Microsoft.

Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

LightEdge is a cloud service and web hosting provider based in USA.

CenturyLink is a multinational communications company headquartered in USA, owned by Lumen. This includes its subsidiaries CenturyTel, Savvis, Qwest, Embarq and the former brand Level 3.

LightEdge is a cloud service and web hosting provider based in USA.

CenturyLink is a multinational communications company headquartered in USA, owned by Lumen. This includes its subsidiaries CenturyTel, Savvis, Qwest, Embarq and the former brand Level 3.

GoDaddy is a provider of internet services. This includes the former brand Media Temple.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.

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

GoDaddy is an IT service provider, among others operating as SSL certificate authority. This includes ValiCert certificates, now operated by GoDaddy.

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 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.

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.

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

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

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/.

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

Deflate is a data compression algorithm.

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.

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.

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