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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.

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

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.

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

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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

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

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

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

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

Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.

Parse.ly is a web analytics service for large publishing sites.

Nielsen provides web site visitor tracking services. This includes the former brand NetRatings.

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

Amazon Associates is the affiliate program of Amazon.

Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) is an advertising networks for ads served on the web, mobile and tablets.

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.

Outbrain is a native advertising platform.

Sovrn is an advertising network. This includes the former brand VigLink.

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

Matomo Tag Manager is an open source, self-hosted tag management system.

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.

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Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

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 Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

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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.

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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