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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...

Denmark-based Mouseflow is an online tool for performing advanced web analytics and realtime user studies on websites. It is a hosted service that can be used on any publicly facing website. Mouseflow records whole visitor sessions including mouse movements, clicks, scroll events and key strokes. Website administrators can pl...

Show you how visitors are really using your website, collect feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

UserVoice creates simple customer engagement tools that help companies understand and interact with their customers more positively and build customer relationships that last. With more than 90,000 organizations signed up and thousands of customers, UserVoice products include: UserVoice Feedback - a hosted tool for gather...

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

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

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

Phusion Passenger - a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack - is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. Administration tools allow you to gain insight into web application operations and server performance.

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

Rack::Cache is a component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications such as Rails.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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.

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

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 iconic font and CSS toolkit