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Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Webtrends founded the web analytics industry in 1993. Today, their leadership extends much further, to social media measurement, paid-search optimization and connecting the online and offline data silos scattered throughout organizations.

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

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.

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

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

Websites using Google technologies

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

Easy and clear website quality assurance. Make sure your web strategy is aligned with business processes with easy responsibility management and reporting.

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

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 ...

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

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.

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.

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.

Wesites using favicon rel tag

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

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 iconic font and CSS toolkit