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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...

Bugsnag is “command center” for software stability - empowering software teams to make data-driven decisions on when to focus on building new features, or when to fix bugs.

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

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

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

Websites using Google technologies

A flexible & easy-to-manage web server... Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

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

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Websites using https protocol.

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

Wesites using favicon rel tag

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.

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