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Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Volusion is an Austin, Texas-based e-commerce software development company. Founded in 1999, the company is one of the oldest online shopping cart providers.

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...

New Relic offers SaaS Application Performance Management and Real User Monitoring for Cloud and Data Center deployed web applications implemented in Ruby, Java, .NET or PHP.

Websites using Google technologies

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

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.

mustache.js is an implementation of the mustache template system in JavaScript.

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

Google Tag Manager makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags including analytics, remarketing, and more.

jPlayer allows you to embed cross platform audio and video into your web pages.

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Send live or pre-recorded audio and video to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac using an ordinary web server.

Embedded videos from Vimeo.

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

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

Track Your Results. Get the stats on your campaigns and subscribers, so you can improve your content every time you send, and tailor your newsletters to your ...

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...

Pantheon hosts Drupal and Wordpress sites, while also delivering staging environments, backups, workflow, a global CDN and HTTPS.

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

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

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.

Websites with FAQ page

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

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries.

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

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.

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

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

Wesites using favicon rel tag

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the 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.

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