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Drupal is an open source content management system written in PHP, originally developed by Dries Buytaert.

Craft CMS is a content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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.

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.

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a JavaScript library for HTML5 animations.

Animate is a CSS library focusing on animations.

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.

Pantheon provides CMS hosting.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Hurricane Electric is a US-based Internet service provider also offering web hosting services.

Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA.

Hurricane Electric is a US-based provider of internet services.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

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

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

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.

CrazyEgg is a website visitor and click tracking service.

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

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

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

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.

AddToAny is a social bookmarking and sharing service.

ShareThis 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.

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/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/.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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