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Technologies
Last profiled 22nd May. Profile will be refreshed on 19th June.Operating Systems and Servers
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"This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network."
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"nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev."
Document Standards
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"The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites."
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"The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser."
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"JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript."
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"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML "
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"This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices."
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"Identifies administrators for a page which will be able publish data to your wall if you like any content within this page."
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"This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content."
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"The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content."
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"This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation."
Document Encoding
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"UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages."
JavaScript Libraries and Functions
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"Modernizr allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet."
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"Users can pin the site to the Windows start bar."
Syndication Techniques
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"A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts."
Analytics and Tracking
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"This website contains tracking information that allows admins to see Facebook Insights out of Facebook to this domain."
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"Test&Target gives marketers the necessary capabilities to continually make their online content and offers more relevant to their customers-yielding greater conversion."
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"Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers. "
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"Parse.ly provides web analytics tools and APIs built specifically for the needs of online content sites. Its flagship product, Parse.ly Dash, provides historical, real-time, and predictive insights for the web's best publishers."
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"Data driven marketing advertising program provides social media sites with advance targeting"
Content Delivery Network
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"Page contains link to Limelight Networks hosted content."
Widgets
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"MailChimp is a widely used Mailng List delivery and support service."
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