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Akamai's EdgePlatform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. It is a network of more than 95,000 secure servers equipped with proprietary software and deployed in 71 countries.

Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.

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

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

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

Websites using Google technologies

DNS services provided by Akamai.

Akamai's network is one of the world's largest distributed-computing platforms, responsible for serving 30 percent of all web traffic.

Tealium is a provider of tag management system for enterprise web sites.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Websites using https protocol.

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.

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.

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

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