Server Information
Google Webmaster
Webmaster tools provide you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly.
Apache
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
Unix
A *nix based operating system (undisclosed).
mod_ssl
This module provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols
OpenSSL
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
Auth Passthrough
Frontpage security module for Apache.
Limiter Modules
Log Byte and Bandwidth Limiter modules.
Content Management Systems
WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Frameworks
Shockwave Flash Embed
The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
DAV
WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
Frontpage Extensions
A web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was part of Microsoft Office application suite from 1997 to 2003.
Advertising
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
Analytics and Tracking
Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.
Quantcast Measurement
Provides Quantcast with tracking information about your site which anyone can access and view demographic information.
JavaScript Libraries
Prototype
Prototype is a javascript framework which aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
script.aculo.us
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
Passive Localization
l10n.js is a JavaScript library that enables passive localization through native JavaScript methods, gracefully degrading if the library is not present.
jQuery
JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
SWFObject
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.
Audio/Video Media
DailyMotion Video
Video sharing website The website contains embedded videos.
YouTube
Embedded videos from YouTube.
Widgets
Wordpress Plugins
Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The website uses various plugins from WordPress to provide additional functionality. Some of them may be listed here.
Lightbox
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
FeedBurner
The website uses the FeedBurner widget to display how many readers of its RSS feeds they have.
Content Delivery Network
AJAX Libraries API
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries.
Aggregation Functionality
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
Really Simple Discovery
Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Live Writer Support
Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.
Document Information
XHTML Transitional
The website claims XHTML Transitional status. XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet.
Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Purl
A persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a URL which describes an intermediate location which, when retrieved, results in redirection to the current location of the final resource. The site contains schema information identifying the use of PURL.
Encoding
UTF-8
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.