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Last profiled 21st May. Profile will be refreshed on 18th 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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"Webmaster tools provide you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly."
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"Site registered at MSN/Bing Webmaster."
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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 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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"XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. "
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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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"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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"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 uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content."
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"This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page."
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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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"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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"The website supports openid single digital identity via the use of OpenID."
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"The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications."
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"The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content."
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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."
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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"Users can pin the site to the Windows start bar."
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"JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."
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"The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another."
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" JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect."
Analytics and Tracking
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"Optimizely is a way for you to improve your website through A/B testing."
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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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"Market research company that studies internet trends and behavior."
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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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"Omniture SiteCatalyst⌐ provides your website with actionable, real-time intelligence regarding online strategies and marketing initiatives."
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"Insights is the only analytics service designed to help forum administrators understand their content and users and make their sites better. "
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"Provides Quantcast with tracking information about your site which anyone can access and view demographic information. "
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"Tells owners of The website how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and whats most interesting to them."
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."
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."
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"RSS Aggregation stats from Google, previously Feedburner."
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"A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents."
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"Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software."
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"Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema"
Content Delivery Network
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"Contains content that may be hosted on the WordPress Grid Hosting CDN."
Content Management System
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"VIP Hosting from WordPress, The website is hosted on the WordPress.com grid network and managed by WordPress."
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"WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability."
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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"Creates Gravatar Profiles on the site."
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"Google+ API functionality."
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"Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The website uses various plugins from WordPress to provide additional functionality. Some of them may be listed here."
Advertising
Frameworks
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"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
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