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Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

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

Websites using Google technologies

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.

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven appro...

Polyfill is a service which accepts a request for a set of browser features and returns only the polyfills that are needed by the requesting browser.

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

A responsive front-end framework.

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

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.

Websites with cart functionality on them

Websites that accepts payments with Visa.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

GDPR, Privacy Management Software and Cookie consent services.

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

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

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

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other pro...

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

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

Transactional and marketing email delivery system.

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

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

Small, medium and enterprise business solutions.

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.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate dec...

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.

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.

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

Indicates that the site provides an interface specifically for searching the document and its related resources.

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.

The act of searching for an object. Related actions: FindAction: SearchAction generally leads to a FindAction, but not necessarily.

A scheme.org entity that represents entities that have a somewhat fixed, physical extension.

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