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Content Management Systems

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

WPBakery is a WordPress-based web page builder.

Server-side Programming Language

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Client-side Programming Language

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

JavaScript Libraries

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.

Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.

Web Servers

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.

Operating System

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

Web Hosting Provider

Kinsta provides managed WordPress hosting.

Data Center Provider

Google provides various services to run on its servers.

Reverse Proxy Service

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

DNS Server Provider

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

Email Server Provider

Mimecast is a cyber security company providing email services headquartered in the UK.

SSL Certificate Authority

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

JavaScript Content Delivery Network

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

Traffic Analysis Tool

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

Social Widgets

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.

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.

Reddit Buttons allow web pages to be submitted to and discussed on Reddit.

Site Elements

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 of up to 1 day.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Top Level Domain

Commercial entities

Content Language