Here, usingjoomla.com would like to provide a list of abbreviations that you might see or hear about in your website journey.
The abbreviations and what they stand for are listed here in alphabetical order based on the first letter of the abbreviation.
Some of these abbreviations may not be come across very often, if at all. Others, if you read articles or help forums, you may encounter more often.
Do you need to understand any, or all, of them - not really - but if you want to understand more about what goes on "under the hood" of either Joomla and/or hosting then there may be benefits in developing an understanding.
This list will be updated over time, however if we have missed any out - feel free to let us know.
Some of these abbreviations are used in areas other than web design, web hosting, or associated programming - but because they are exclusively used in these areas or in these areas as well as other areas we have included them here.
Some abbreviations are indirectly associated with web design and web-hosting such as when you manage your domain name, and/or website mail, though when it comes to setting up your website mail I am confident that a good web-host will advise or help you - once you become familiar with the process and terminology.
Numerical index:
Numerical index:Select a number to go straight to that numbered section.
Alphabetical index:
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Abbreviations beginning with a numeral
1
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2
2LD = 2nd Level Domain (Second Level Domain). Please also see our article Country Code SLD
2FA = 2 Factor Authentication (Two Factor Authentication).
3
3LD = 3rd Level Domain (Third Level Domain)
Please also see our article Third Level Domains
4
4LD = 4th Level Domain (Fourth Level Domain).
5
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Abbreviations beginning with a letter
A
ACL = Access Control Layer (Access Control Level)
ACSS = Atomic Cascading Style Sheet(s)
AJAX = Asynchronous Javascript And XML
AMP = Accelerated Mobile Pages
API = Application Programming Interface
ARIA = Accessible Rich Internet Application
ARPA = Address and Routing Parameter Area
ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AWS = Amazon Web Services
B
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C
CA = Certificate Authority
CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing Test (to) Tell Computers (and) Humans Apart
ccNSO = country code Name Supporting Organisation
ccSLD = country code Second Level Domain
ccTLD = country code Top level Domain (Read more about ccTLDs)
CDN = Content Delivery Network (or: Content Distribution Network)
CGDN = Community Geographic Domain Name
CGDNs = Community Geographic Domain Names
CGI = Computer Generated Imagery, or . . .
CGI = Common Gateway Interface
CLI = Command Line Interface
CNAME = Canonical Name
cPanel = Control Panel
CMS = Content Management System
CORS = Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
CRISP = Cross Registry Information Service Protocol
CRO = Conversion Rate Optimisation
CSRF = Cross Site Request Forgery
CSS = Cascading Style Sheet(s)
CSSOM = Cascading Style Sheet(s) Object Model
CSV = Comma Separated Variable
CTA = Call To Action
CTR = Click Through Rate
CZDS = Centralised Zone Data Service
D
db = DataBase / database
DBMS = DataBase Management System
DDNS = Dynamic Domain Name Server
DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service
DFI = Direct File Inclusion
DHTML = Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language
DKIM = Domain Keys Identified Mail
DNS = Domain Name Server (Also: Domain Name System) (Also: Domain Name Service)
DoS = Denial of Service
DOM = Document Object Model
DSS = Data Security Standard
E
EPP = Extensible Provisioning Protocol
ETag = Entity Tag
F
FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP = File Transfer Protocol
FTPS = File Transfer Protocol Secure
G
gccTLD = generic country code Top Level Domain (Read more about Generic Top Level Domains)
geoTLD = geographical Top Level Domain (Read more about geoTLDs)
GIF = Graphical Interchange Format
GPL = General Public Licence
GNU = GNU's Not Unix
grTLD = generic restricted Top Level Domain (See also: rgTLD)
gTLD = generic Top Level Domain (Read more about Generic Top Level Domains)
GZip = GNU Zip
H
href = hypertext reference
HSTS = HTTP Strict Transport Security
HTM = Hyper Text Markup
HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP = Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS = Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
I
IAB = Internet Architecture Board
IANA = Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN = Internet Corporation (for) Assigned Names (and) Numbers
IDNA - International Domain Name Application(s) (Also: Internationalised Domain Name Application(s))
IDN(s )= Internationalised Domain Name(s)
IESG = Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF = Internet Engineering Task Force
IIS = Internet Information Server
IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol
IP = Internet Protocol
IPS = Internet Provider Security
Context: IPS Tag = Internet Provider Security Tag, used by Nominet to identify the Registrar managing a .uk domain name.
IPv4 = Internet protocol version 4
IPv6 = Internet Protocol version 6
J
JCE = Joomla Content Editor (This is the name of a well known Joomla Content Editor provided at JoomlaContentEditor.net)
JED = Joomla Extension Directory
JPEG = Joint Photographic Experts Group
JS = JavaScript
js = javascript
JSAS = Joomla Stand Alone Server
JSON = JavaScript Object Notation
K
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L
LAMP = Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl
LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LTR (ltr) = Left To Right (left to right)
LXC = LinuX Container
M
MAMP = Mac-OS Apache MySQL PHP
MB = MultiByte (Also: MegaByte)
MFA = Multi Factor Authentication
MIME = Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
Min (min) = Minified (minified)
MUA = Malicious User Agent
MySQL = My* Structured Query Language ( * The name given to the daughter of MySQL's co-founder)
MX = Mail exchange
N
NS = Name Server
nTLD = new Top Level Domain
O
OAuth = Open Authentication
OS = Operating System
OS = Open Source
P
PCI = Payment Card Industry
PCI DSS = Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PDDRP = Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure
PHP = Pre Hypertext Processor (sometimes referred to as: Hypertext Pre-Processor)
PNG = Portable Networks Graphic
PQDN = Partially Qualified Domain Name
Q
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R
RAM = Random Access Memory
RDBMS = Relational DataBase Management System
RegEx = Regular Expressions
RFI = Remote File Inclusion
RSS = Really Simple Syndication
RTL (rtl) = Right To left (right to left)
rgTLD = restricted generic Top Level Domain
RZM = Root Zone Management
S
SCGI = Simple Common Gateway Interface
SCSS = Sass Cascading Style Sheets (also: Sassy Cascading Style Sheets)
SEF = Search Engine Friendly
SEF URL = Search Engine Friendly Uniform Resource Locator
SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
SEP = Secure Entry Point
SFTP = Secure File Transfer Protocol
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SQLi = Structured Query Language injection
SSD = Solid State Drive
SSE = Server Side Encryption
SSH = Secure Shell
SSI = Server Side Includes
SSL = Secure Socket(s) Layer
sTLD = Sponsored Top Level Domain (Read more about Sponsored Top Level Domains )
suid = set-user-id
T
tTLD = Test Top Level Domain(s)
TLS = Transport Layer Security
TTB = Top To Bottom
TTFB = Time To First Byte
TTL = Time To Live
U
UDRP = Universal Domain-Name Resolution Policy
URI = Universal Resource Identifier
URL = Uniform Resource Locator
URN = Uniform Resource Name
URSS = Uniform Rapid Suspension System
UTF = Unicode Transformation Format (For example: UTF-8)
uTLD = unsponsored Top Level Domain
V
VEL = Vulnerable Extension(s) List
VPS = Virtual Private Server
W
W3C = World Wide Web Consortium
WAF = Web Application Firewall
WAMP = Windows Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl
WCAG = WWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines
WHM = Web Host Manager
WSGI = Web Server Gateway Interface
WWC = World Wide Consortium
WWW = World Wide Web
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
X
XAMPP = cross-platform Apache MariaDB PHP/Perl
XHTML = eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language
XHTTP = eXtended Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
XML = eXtensible Markup Language
XML-RPC = eXtensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call
XSS = Cross Site Scripting
XSLT = eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation
XST = Cross Site Tracing
Y
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