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Analytics and Tracking

ConfiantConfiant

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Security platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced protection for businesses. It offers a range of features designed to help organizations protect their data and systems from malicious attacks.

Advertiser Tracking

Facebook Domain InsightsFacebook Domain Insights

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This website contains tracking information that allows admins to see Facebook Insights out of Facebook to this domain.

Social Management

Google Tag ManagerGoogle Tag Manager

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Tag management that lets you add and update website tags without changes to underlying website code.

Tag Management

Global Privacy ControlGlobal Privacy Control

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This product helps you take control of your privacy by allowing you to globally opt out of data collection and data sharing.

Privacy Compliance

Content Delivery Network

AJAX Libraries APIAJAX Libraries API

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The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries.

CloudFrontCloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. 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.

Viewport MetaViewport Meta

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

JavaScript Libraries and Functions

Google Hosted LibrariesGoogle Hosted Libraries

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Google Hosted Libraries is a globally available content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries.

jQueryjQuery

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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.

JavaScript Library

Intersection ObserverIntersection Observer

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API that can be used to understand the visibility and position of DOM elements relative to a containing element or to the top-level viewport.

Advertising

DoubleClick.NetDoubleClick.Net

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DoubleClick enables agencies, marketers and publishers to work together successfully and profit from their digital marketing investments.

Amazon Ad SystemAmazon Ad System

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Google AdsenseGoogle Adsense

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A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.

Contextual Advertising

Web Servers

nginxnginx

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

Syndication Techniques

RSSRSS

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A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.

Document Encoding

UTF-8UTF-8

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

Document Standards

HTML5 DocTypeHTML5 DocType

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The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

DNS PrefetchDNS Prefetch

DNS Prefetch Usage Statistics

Page contains links to disable or enable DNS prefetching of links in the page.

X-UA-CompatibleX-UA-Compatible

X-UA-Compatible Usage Statistics

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.

JavascriptJavascript

Javascript Usage Statistics

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

Canonical Content TagCanonical Content Tag

Canonical Content Tag Usage Statistics

Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.

Open Graph ProtocolOpen Graph Protocol

Open Graph Protocol Usage Statistics

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

Facebook Page AdministrationFacebook Page Administration

Facebook Page Administration Usage Statistics

Identifies administrators for a page which will be able publish data to your wall if you like any content within this page.

JSON-LDJSON-LD

JSON-LD Usage Statistics

JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, is a method of transporting Linked Data using JSON.

Meta DescriptionMeta Description

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The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.

Font Face RuleFont Face Rule

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The @font-face rule allows for linking to fonts that are automatically activated when needed.

Web App ManifestWeb App Manifest

Web App Manifest Usage Statistics

Defines the attributes of a web app in a simple JSON file. It describes how the web app should appear on the users system and how it should launch.

IFrameIFrame

IFrame Usage Statistics

The page shows content with an iframe; an embedded frame that loads another webpage.

HTML 5 Specific TagsHTML 5 Specific Tags

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This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.

WAI-ARIAWAI-ARIA

WAI-ARIA Usage Statistics

A way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

Verified CDN

Amazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront delivers your static and streaming content using a global network of edge locations.

Edge Delivery Network

AWS Cloudfront Montréal QC EdgeAWS Cloudfront Montréal QC Edge

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Content from this site is served from AWS CloudFront Montréal, QC, Canada. Edge locations may change frequently as we request resources globally.

Content Delivery Network

Content Delivery NetworkContent Delivery Network

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This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.