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Google Publisher Tag (GPT) is an ad tagging library with which you can dynamically build ad requests. GPT takes key details from you such as ad unit name, ad size, and custom targeting, builds the request, and displays the ad on web pages or mobile apps.

DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Companies come to DoubleClick for expertise in ad serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium.

Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...

This website contains tracking information that allows admins to see Facebook Insights out of Facebook to this domain.

Quantcast helps advertisers and publishers better understand, find and access targeted audiences in real-time. Marketers use Quantcast to amplify their targeting and reach consumers who look just like their best performing customers with unprecedented performance and scale. Publishers use Quantcast to directly measure and packag...

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

Websites using Google technologies

Websites using some type of Facebook technology.

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

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

Using this tag you can set up your web app to have an application shortcut icon added to a device's homescreen, and have the app launch in full-screen "app mode".

Identifies administrators for a page which will be able publish data to your wall if you like any content within this 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...

Websites with cart functionality on them

PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.

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

A responsive front-end framework.

Google Tag Manager makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags including analytics, remarketing, and more.

Liveintent is a people-based marketing technology platform that generates a customer graph while driving sales and revenue.

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

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 ...

Embedded videos from Vimeo.

Podcast hosting service

SoundCloud is the world's leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr,...

DNS Made Easy offers enterprise managed DNS and geographical load balancing services on a global IP Anycast DNS network with a 100% uptime guarantee.

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server ...

Enyo is a JavaScript app framework enabling developers to build native-quality HTML5 apps that run everywhere.

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

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.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

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

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

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.

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".

Wesites using favicon rel tag

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.

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

The act of searching for an object. Related actions: FindAction: SearchAction generally leads to a FindAction, but not necessarily.

A scheme.org entity that represents a person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

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