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Piwik is an open source analytics platform currently used by individuals, companies and governments all over the world. With Piwik, your data will always be yours. Learn why Piwik is the right web analytics tool for you below.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. 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.

Real-time Analytics and CDN platform. Analyze your web and server traffic patterns in real-time

Websites using Amazon technologies

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Carousel JavaScript solution

Cascading grid layout library

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

All Twitter's social tools, including buttons and timeline widgets.

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

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

A rich hosted Exchange environment for every user without having to manage a server.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other pro...

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server ...

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

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.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

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.

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