Server Information
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
Drupal
An engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. Modular design allows flexibility in design.
Frameworks
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.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
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.
JavaScript Libraries
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.
Modernizr
Modernizr allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
Facebook SDK
JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.
Twitter Platform
The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.
Widgets
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Facebook Like Button
The code to implement a Facebook Like Button on the page.
Twitter Tweet Button
Official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared.
Facebook Comments
Allows users to comments on a sites content and share that on their Facebook wall and streams.
Facebook Like Box
The use of a fan page Like box Facebook page integration.
Content Delivery Network
Akamai
Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.
Twitter CDN
This page contains content sourced from the Twitter CDN, either by the use of Widgets or linking to image content on twimg.com currently hosted by Akamai and Amazon.
Document Information
XHTML RDFa 1.0
XHTML+RDFa 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute level extensions to XHTML for embedding rich metadata within Web documents.
Open Graph Protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
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.
XHTML Vocabulary
A vocabulary collection utilized by XHTML Family modules and document types using XHTML Modularization.
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
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Meta Robot
This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
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.
Conditional Comments
The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser.
960.gs
This page may be using a 960 grid layout system from 960.gs.
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.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, is a joint ISO and IEC standard for 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. The standard is divided into numbered, separately published parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc., each of which may be informally referred to as a standard in itself. There are currently 15 parts as of 2006 excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12 standard.