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Document 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.
Document Standards
Meta Robot
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Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
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
Twitter Cards
Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content.
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
HREF Lang
Contains language specific links.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Web App Manifest
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.
JSON-LD
JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, is a method of transporting Linked Data using JSON.
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.
Javascript Defer
The defer attribute gives a hint to the browser that the script does not create any content so the browser can optionally defer interpreting the script. This can improve performance by delaying execution of scripts until after the body content is parsed and rendered.
WAI-ARIA
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.
Srcset
Adapting images for high-resolution and low-resolution displays.
HTML5 DocType
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
HTML 5 Specific Tags
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Content Security Policy
Content Security Policy is a computer security concept, to prevent cross-site scripting XSS attacks.
Content Type Options
Used to disable MIME-sniffing for a particular HTTP response.
Strict Transport Security
The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header instructs the browser to only use https.
Mobile
Viewport Meta
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Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon
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Language
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Spain HREF LANG
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France HREF LANG
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Germany HREF LANG
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Poland HREF LANG
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Russia HREF LANG
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Sweden HREF LANG
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Greek HREF LANG
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Portugal HREF LANG
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Italy HREF LANG
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Chinese HREF LANG
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Japan HREF LANG
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Korea HREF LANG
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Netherlands HREF LANG
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Bulgaria HREF LANG
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Croatian HREF LANG
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Danish HREF LANG
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Finland HREF LANG
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Hungarian HREF LANG
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Norway HREF LANG
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Romanian HREF LANG
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Slovak HREF LANG
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Turkey HREF LANG
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Ukrainian HREF LANG
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Saudi Arabia HREF LANG
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Farsi - Persian HREF LANG
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Galician HREF LANG
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Hebrew HREF LANG
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Hindi HREF LANG
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Indonesian HREF LANG
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Malay HREF LANG
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Brazil HREF LANG
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Serbian HREF LANG
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Vietnamese HREF LANG
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Taiwan HREF LANG
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Philippines HREF LANG
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Belgium HREF LANG
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Denmark HREF LANG
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Urdu HREF LANG
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SSL Certificates
HSTS
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