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Real User Monitoring gives insight into performance for actual users visiting the website.

A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

Websites embedding Google maps.

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

Facebook Connect allow users to connect their Facebook identity, friends and, privacy to any website. Facebook Connect is Facebook's first attempt to allow access to Facebook user data outside of Facebook itself. The company is describing it as giving third party applications access to much of the same data as Facebook applicat...

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Carousel JavaScript solution

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Websites with links to podcasts hosted on SimpleCast

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

A flexible Wordpress form builder.

Websites using some type of Facebook technology.

Websites using Google technologies

GDPR, Privacy Management Software and Cookie consent services.

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

GDPR Cookie Consent plugin for WordPress

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

Track Your Results. Get the stats on your campaigns and subscribers, so you can improve your content every time you send, and tailor your newsletters to your ...

A rich hosted Exchange environment for every user without having to manage a server.

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other pro...

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

A pingback is one of four types of linkback methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

Website using the € symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in Euros.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.