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JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language. This includes TypeScript.
JavaScript
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JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.
Moment.js is a library to manipulate dates in JavaScript.
Moment.js
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.
jQuery 1.10.2
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Next.js is an open source JavaScript framework based on React and Node.js.
Next.js
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Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment for writing network programs such as web servers, originally developed by Ryan Dahl.
Node.js
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Amazon
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Fastly is a content delivery network.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service by Amazon.
Amazon CloudFront
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Amazon is a US-based e-commerce and cloud computing provider.
Microsoft is a multinational technology company headquartered in USA, also offering email services.
GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.
Starfield Technologies is an SSL certificate authority owned by Go Daddy.
Starfield
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The CDNJS is a content distribution network, hosting a large number of JavaScript libraries, provided by CloudFlare.
Chartbeat is a real-time web analytics tool by Betaworks.
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.
Google Analytics
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The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.
Microsoft Advertising is an advertising platform by Microsoft. This includes the former brands Xandr, AppNexus, Aquantive and others.
PubMatic is a marketing automation software provider.
Nativo (formerly PostRelease) is a network for native advertising.
Outbrain is a native advertising platform.
Outbrain
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The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.
Google Tag Manager
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Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.
Facebook
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A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.
Twitter/X
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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.
Session Cookies
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Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.
Cookies expiring in hours
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Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 month and 1 year.
Cookies expiring in months
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HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.
HttpOnly Cookies
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Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.
Non-HttpOnly Cookies
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Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.
Secure Cookies
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Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.
Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.
Gzip Compression
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A strong ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a byte-for-byte identical page in the cache.
Strong ETag
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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/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.
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-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.
Non-Secure Cookies
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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.
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.
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