STE100 Technical Names: web site terms¶

The Web Site Terms category of the STE100 Technical Names dictionary. These terms name what the online manual records about a reader, and what the dashboard serves on the local machine. No standard STE word describes these privacy and hosting concepts with the same precision.

Technical Name: Hosting Provider¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The service that builds the online manual and serves it. For the online manual, the hosting provider is Read the Docs.
Approved Form: Hosting Provider (singular), Hosting Providers (plural)
Do Not Use: Host, Web host, Platform
Correct Example: The hosting provider serves the manual from a public domain.
Incorrect Example: The host serves the manual from a public domain.

Technical Name: Page View¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: One request for one page of the online manual.
Approved Form: Page View (singular), Page Views (plural)
Do Not Use: Hit, Impression, Visit, Click
Correct Example: The page view count shows which pages a reader opens.
Incorrect Example: The hit count shows which pages a reader opens.

Technical Name: Analytics¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The counting of page views and traffic on a web site. In this project, analytics means the hosting provider’s own aggregate counting.
Approved Form: Analytics, Traffic analytics
Do Not Use: Tracking, Monitoring, Statistics (when web traffic measurement is meant)
Correct Example: The hosting provider counts page views with its own analytics.
Incorrect Example: The hosting provider counts page views with its own monitoring.

Technical Name: Tracker¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: A script, tag, or pixel that a web site loads to record who opened a page, or to follow a reader across sites.
Approved Form: Tracker (singular), Trackers (plural)
Do Not Use: Cookie, Beacon, Pixel, Script (when page recording is meant)
Correct Example: The manual loads no tracker and no external script.
Incorrect Example: The manual loads no cookie and no external script.

Technical Name: Do Not Track¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: A browser signal that asks a web site not to follow the reader. The signal is the W3C tracking preference expression DNT: 1.
Approved Form: Do Not Track, DNT
Do Not Use: Tracking preference, Opt-out, Privacy mode
Correct Example: The hosting provider obeys Do Not Track.
Incorrect Example: The hosting provider obeys the tracking preference.

Technical Name: Search Index¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The static file that the build writes. It holds the words and page names that a browser matches against a search word.
Approved Form: Search Index
Do Not Use: Search database, Search server, Index file
Correct Example: The browser matches the search word against a static search index.
Incorrect Example: The browser matches the search word against a search database.

Technical Name: Advertisement¶

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: A message that a web site shows beside its content. A paid advertisement comes from a paying advertiser. A community advertisement is free and promotes an open source project.
Approved Form: Advertisement (singular), Advertisements (plural), Paid advertisement, Community advertisement
Do Not Use: Ad, Ad block, Banner, Promotion, Sponsor (when a message on a page is meant)
Correct Example: The manual shows no paid advertisement.
Incorrect Example: The manual shows no ad.