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Content Management Systems

Ghost is an open source publishing platform built on Node.js, originally developed by John O'Nolan.

Help Scout provides hosted knowledge base / help desk software as part of their customer communications platform.

Server-side Programming Languages

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language. This includes TypeScript.

Client-side Programming Language

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

Web Servers

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

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

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.

Envoy Proxy is a proxy server designed for large service-oriented architectures.

Caddy is an open-source web server implemented in Go.

Web Hosting Providers

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Help Scout provides hosted knowledge base / help desk software as part of their customer communications platform.

Data Center Provider

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Reverse Proxy Services

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Fastly is a content delivery network.

DNS Server Provider

Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.

Email Server Provider

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

SSL Certificate Authorities

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

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

Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) is a US-based SSL certificate authority.

JavaScript Content Delivery Network

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

Traffic Analysis Tools

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.

HubSpot Marketing Analytics is a web analytics tool by HubSpot.

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

Advertising Network

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

Tag Manager

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

Social Widgets

Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.

The Pinterest Pin-It button allows website visitors to pin images onto Pinterest.

LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.

Site Elements

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.

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.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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/.

Structured Data Formats

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.

Markup Language

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

Character Encoding

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

Image File Formats

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format.

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

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

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.

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

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