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Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Publishing & Storytelling Platform

A freely available eCommerce plugin that enables shop facilities on your WordPress website.

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...

Parse.ly empowers companies to understand, own and improve digital audience engagement through data.

Wordpress SEO Plugin

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

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...

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to focus on what you do best. Create and publish great content. We’ll take care of the rest.

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

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

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

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".

Websites using Google technologies

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

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

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

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

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

Stripe is a developer-friendly way to accept payments online and in mobile apps.

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".

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

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

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