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

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

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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

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.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

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

Popper is an open source JavaScript library for tooltips and popovers.

Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.

ASP.NET Ajax is a JavaScript library based on ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft.

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

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

Windows is an operating system produced by Microsoft.

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

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

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

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

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

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.

jsDelivr is a service for hosting JavaScript files.

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.

Facebook Pixel is an analytics tool to track actions on websites.

Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps to optimize LinkedIn campaigns.

Hotjar is a website analytics and feedback application.

Lotame Crowd Control is an analytics package to measure social media behavior for publishers and advertisers.

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

Xandr is an advertising network owned by Microsoft, formerly by AT&T. This includes the former AppNexus brand.

OpenX (previously called phpAds, phpAdsNew, MaxMediaManager and Openads) is an open source ad management system and ad marketplace.

Yahoo Advertising (formerly Verizon Media Advertising, Adtech, ONE by AOL, Yahoo Ad Tech and Oath Advertising) offers a range of advertising platforms.

Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) is an advertising network.

Amobee is an advertising and marketing platform. This includes the former brands Turn and Adconion.

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

Ensighten is a website tag management system owned by CHEQ. This includes TagMan, which has been acquired by Ensighten.

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

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

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

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

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.

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.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network 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/.

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.

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 Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

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

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.

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