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clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/ssl_certificate">SSL Certificate Authority</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Let鈥檚 Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/sc-letsencrypt">Let鈥檚 Encrypt</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis">Traffic Analysis Tool</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Microsoft UET (Universal Event Tracking) records what visitors do on a website after they click on an ad.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ta-microsoftuet">Microsoft UET</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/advertising">Advertising Network</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ad-google">Google Ads</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/tag_manager">Tag Managers</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/tg-google">Google Tag Manager</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Matomo Tag Manager is an open source, self-hosted tag management system.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/tg-matomo">Matomo Tag Manager</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/social_widget">Social Widgets</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Facebook Social Plugins provide a way for Facebook users to share web pages with their friends.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/so-facebookwidgets">Facebook</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The WhatsApp share button allows users to share content with their WhatsApp contacts.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/so-whatsapp">WhatsApp</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>A Twitter/X Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/so-twitterwidgets">Twitter/X</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>LinkedIn Share Buttons enable visitors to to share website content with their LinkedIn network.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/so-linkedinwidgets">LinkedIn</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Reddit Buttons allow web pages to be submitted to and discussed on Reddit.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/so-redditwidgets">Reddit</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/site_element">Site Elements</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-externalcss">External CSS</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-embeddedcss">Embedded CSS</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-inlinecss">Inline CSS</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-gzipcompression">Gzip Compression</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>A weak ETag is an HTTP header field for validation of cached web pages, that indicates a semantically equivalent page in the cache.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-weaketag">Weak ETag</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides amongst others a vastly larger address space than the preceding version 4. We consider a website to support IPv6 if a 128-bit address is assigned to it, regardless of the content delivered at that address.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-ipv6">IPv6</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-hsts">HTTP Strict Transport Security</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-wwwdefault">Default subdomain www</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-httpsdefault">Default protocol https</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/structured_data">Structured Data Formats</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/da-opengraph">Open Graph</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/da-twittercards">Twitter/X Cards</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/da-jsonld">JSON-LD</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/da-genericrdfa">Generic RDFa</a> <br><span class=si_hint>used on inner pages</span><br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/markup_language">Markup Language</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ml-html5">HTML5</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding">Character Encoding</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf8">UTF-8</a> <br clear=all><div class=si_h><p class=si_h><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/image_format">Image File Formats</a></div><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-jpeg">JPEG</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-svg">SVG</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression, developed by Google.</div><p class=si_tech><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-webp">WebP</a> <br clear=all><div class="si_tech si_tech_np"><p>PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless 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