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Technologies
Last profiled 18th May. Profile will be refreshed on 15th June.Operating Systems and Servers
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"Webmaster tools provide you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly."
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"Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server."
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"Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996."
Document Standards
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"The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites."
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"Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering."
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"Frames Google Chrome window into Internet Explorer for HTML 5 compatibility."
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"Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content."
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"The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content."
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"Tells mobile browsers that the content is already framed for mobile browsing."
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"Microsoft invented the MobileOptimized META tag to control the layout width for mobile markup rendered in Internet Explorer Mobile."
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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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"This content is formatted for mobile devices, it does not allow the content to be scaled."
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"The website contains code that allows the page to support IPhone / Mobile Content."
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"Minimizes the status bar that is displayed at the top of the screen on iOS."
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"Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content."
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"The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook"
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"The page contains a Google Publisher page link. This means Google+ results may appear for searches for this website on Google."
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"This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices."
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"Specifies a startup image that is displayed while your web application launches."
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"CSS that supports rendering on the Apple iPad and other devices that support max resolution width of 1024 pixels."
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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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"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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"This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation."
JavaScript Libraries and Functions
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"Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website."
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"Loads head scripts in parallel to prevent script blocking. "
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."
Widgets
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"Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook."
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"MailChimp is a widely used Mailng List delivery and support service."
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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"Helps measure results and improve them with analytics from KISSmetrics."
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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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"Market research company that studies internet trends and behavior."
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."
Advertising
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"ADTECH AG is a leading international digital marketing solutions company. "
Content Delivery Network
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"Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery."
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