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Piwik is an open source analytics platform currently used by individuals, companies and governments all over the world. With Piwik, your data will always be yours. Learn why Piwik is the right web analytics tool for you below.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Polyfill is a service which accepts a request for a set of browser features and returns only the polyfills that are needed by the requesting browser.

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

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

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

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

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

Websites using Google technologies

Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization

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

Inbound email scrutiny and data loss prevention services.

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

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

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.

Content Security Policy is best used as defense-in-depth, to reduce the harm caused by content injection attacks.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

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

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is.

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