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Technologies
Last profiled 20th May. Profile will be refreshed on 17th June.Operating Systems and Servers
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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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"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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"Frames Google Chrome window into Internet Explorer for HTML 5 compatibility."
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"The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content."
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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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"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."
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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"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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"A jQuery extension that provides functionality to "ease" things onto or off of the screen."
Widgets
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"Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. "
Content Delivery Network
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"The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries."
Analytics and Tracking
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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. "
Content Management System
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"ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website."
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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