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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.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites.

Automattic is hosting WordPress-based websites.

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

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

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.

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

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

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

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

PubMatic is a marketing automation software provider.

Outbrain is a native advertising platform.

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.

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 use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://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 Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

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.

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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