Encyclopedia

Image: What is a website footer? Design and SEO tipsmarekuliaszShutterstock

What is a website footer? Design and SEO tips

The website footer is the visual conclusion of a webpage. In the footer, important, legally relevant information is summarised as links. By carefully selecting the content of the footer, you can improve a webpage’s usability, user engagement, and SEO status. So, what should a…

Read more
Image: What is a tracking pixel? How modern tracking works so easilyRoman SeliutinShutterstock

What is a tracking pixel? How modern tracking works so easily

Tracking pixels are powerful tools for capturing user behaviour in a simple yet effective way, making them valuable for online marketing. These tiny, invisible graphics are easy to integrate and run quietly in the background with minimal resource usage. However, to ensure GDPR…

Read more
Image: What is Unicode? Definition and explanationTimofey ManzyukShutterstock

What is Unicode? Definition and explanation

In the early years, digital text representation was primarily geared toward the English language. Now, people exchange information across language and country borders. This change required the creation of a unified structure for exchanging characters from all alphabets. This goal…

Read more
Image: What are Web3 domains?Titima OngkantongShutterstock

What are Web3 domains?

Web3 domains are digital identities that are based on a blockchain and give users full control of their domains. They link cryptocurrency wallets, decentralised websites and other Web3 applications. In this article, we explain what exactly Web3 domains are, which domain endings…

Read more
Image: What is a subdomain?alice-photoShutterstock

What is a subdomain?

Most users have probably visited a mobile site that began with ‘m’. Or perhaps you’ve landed on an English-language page with a preceding ‘en’. In both cases, you accessed a subdomain. But what is a subdomain, and when does it make sense to use one? We’ll explain when subdomains…

Read more
Image: What is a crawler? How data spiders optimise the internetWatchara Ritjanshutterstock

What is a crawler? How data spiders optimise the internet

Web crawlers roam through the internet like digital spiders, searching for web content, collecting data, and storing it in databases. And web crawlers are indispensable online. But how do they work, and what types of crawlers are there? We answer these questions—and also reveal…

Read more
Image: What does .org mean? The domain extension at a glance

What does .org mean? The domain extension at a glance

The .org domain is a popular and frequently used domain extension. It’s often used by organisations that value credibility and seriousness. But what exactly does .org mean? Find out everything you need to know about the .org meaning and the areas in which the domain extension is…

Read more
Image: How do UTM parameters help with google UTM tracking and campaigns?metamorworksshutterstock

How do UTM parameters help with google UTM tracking and campaigns?

Google Analytics offers various ways to attribute website visits to specific sources. One of them is UTM parameters, which you append to your campaign links and then evaluate in Google Analytics. We explain how google UTM tracking works, what UTM parameters exist, and how to…

Read more
Image: What is utf-8 and why is it important for global digital communication?ASAG StudioShutterstock

What is utf-8 and why is it important for global digital communication?

UTF-8 is a character encoding under Unicode that aims to encompass all modern languages for data processing. What exactly does ‘UTF-8’ mean? And what is special about UTF-8 in the Unicode character set? Here you’ll learn about the structure of the coding and which bytes are…

Read more
Image: What is a WYSIWYG editor and which one is right for you?Dominik BruhnShutterstock

What is a WYSIWYG editor and which one is right for you?

WYSIWYG – this unusual string of letters has become the standard for most editing programs. Many users can hardly imagine working without the ‘What You See Is What You Get’ principle. Yet especially when it comes to HTML editors, there are alternative approaches and differing…

Read more