Glossary
What the technical words mean
Every technical term that shows up in one of my proposals, in one sentence each, with a picture where a picture helps. If a word in your proposal is linked, it lands here.
- Cloudflare's network
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Cloudflare's network is the worldwide set of servers your site is served from, instead of one rented server in one place.
A visitor's request goes to Cloudflare first, then on to your site. - HTTPS
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HTTPS is the encrypted version of a web address, and the site is set to force it so every visit is encrypted.
A browser connecting to a site over an encrypted, padlocked link. - subdomains
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A subdomain is an address that hangs off your main domain (agreements.wiredbuilder.com is one of ours), and the HTTPS rule covers those too.
A main domain with two subdomains branching off it. - framing blocked
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Framing blocked means the site tells browsers it may not be embedded inside someone else's web page.
Another site's page trying to embed yours, and the embed refused. - behind Cloudflare
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A domain is behind Cloudflare when visitors reach Cloudflare first and Cloudflare passes the request on to your site.
A visitor's request goes to Cloudflare first, then on to your site. - traffic is filtered
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Traffic is filtered means Cloudflare screens requests before they reach the site, so unwanted traffic is stopped on the way in.
Good and bad requests arriving at Cloudflare; only the good ones reach the site. - DNS is in your account
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DNS is the record that says where your domain points, and "in your account" means it lives in a Cloudflare account you own rather than a vendor's.
Your domain and its DNS records sitting inside an account with your name on it. - certificates
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A certificate is what lets a browser trust and encrypt its connection to your site, and on Cloudflare they renew on their own.
A certificate on a loop that renews before it expires. - Quote requests are sent through Cloudflare Email Sending
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Cloudflare Email Sending is Cloudflare's own mail service, so quote-request emails go out from an address on your own domain with no third-party mail provider in the middle.
A quote form on the site, saved to your database, then emailed to your inbox through Cloudflare. - Analytics, Google Ads
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Google Analytics records what people do on the site (phone taps, form submissions, booking clicks) and feeds those leads to Google Ads, so the advertising is judged on bookings rather than clicks.
Site actions recorded by Analytics and passed to Google Ads as leads. - Zaras
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Zaras (Cloudflare Zaraz) is the Cloudflare feature that loads Google Analytics from Cloudflare's side instead of through Tag Manager, so ad blockers do not quietly drop the numbers.
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