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Technologies in use by lgbc-scotland.gov.uk

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...

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.

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

Version 7 of Drupal.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

Websites using Google technologies

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

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.

ASP.NET is a web application framework marketed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.

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

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

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Websites with FAQ 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 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

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.

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