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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.

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

Websites using Amazon technologies

Zendesk provides an integrated on-demand helpdesk - customer support portal solution based on the latest Web 2.0 technologies and design philosophies. The product has an elegant, minimalist design implemented in Ruby on Rails and provides seamless integration of the back-end helpdesk SaaS to a company's online customer-facing...

Zendesk chat (formaly Zopim) is a web based chat application for online business owners, born out of frustration for existing Live Chat solutions. The Live Chat industry for web based customer sales and support is not new, and neither are the solutions – they have not evolved to adapt to web users behavior, and are usually dif...

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

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective outbound-only email-sending service built on the reliable and scalable infrastructure that Amazon.com has developed to serve its own customer base. With Amazon SES, you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of high-quality content and you ...

Mandrill is a scalable and affordable email infrastructure service, with all the marketing-friendly analytics tools you've come to expect

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

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.

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

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.

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.