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

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.

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.

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

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites. This includes it Pressable and Newspack brand.

Salesforce is a US-based provider of cloud-based software. This includes the former Demandware brand.

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

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.

DigiCert is an SSL certificate authority. This includes Verizon, whose Enterprise SSL Business has been acquired by DigiCert.

The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.

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.

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.

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

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

New Relic is a web application performance management tool.

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

Skimlinks is an advertising service, that inserts affiliate links into webpages.

CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is an online advertising and affiliate marketing service by Conversant.

Rakuten Advertising (formerly Rakuten Affiliate Network and LinkShare) is an advertising network.

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.

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.

Tumblr buttons make it easy for Tumblr bloggers to share content on their blogs.

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.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Deflate is a data 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 use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to http://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.

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.

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

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

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