A crash report is a diagnostic record created when software terminates abnormally, capturing the stack trace, exception and system state for debugging.
Crawl budget is the number of URLs a search engine crawler can and wants to fetch from a site in a given…
A crawl error occurs when a search engine crawler tries to fetch a site or URL and fails because of DNS, server,…
Crawl rate is the speed at which a search engine crawler requests pages from a website, usually measured in requests per second…
The creator economy is the market of independent creators who earn income from audiences on social media through ads, sponsorships and direct…
A creator niche is the specific topic and audience a content creator consistently serves, defining what the channel is known for and…
Credential stuffing is an automated attack that replays username and password pairs stolen from one breach against login pages of other services.
A credential vault is a secured, access-controlled store that holds the passwords, API keys and tokens automated workflows need, issuing them only…
The critical rendering path is the sequence of browser steps that turns HTML, CSS and JavaScript into the first pixels a visitor…
CRM automation uses rules, workflows and integrations inside a customer relationship management system to run repetitive sales, marketing and service tasks.
CRO (conversion rate optimization) is the systematic e-commerce practice of increasing the share of store visitors who complete a purchase or goal.
Cron is the Linux daemon that starts commands automatically at scheduled times, read from crontab files written in a five-field time and…
A cron expression is a compact string of time fields that tells a scheduler when to run a job, such as every…
Crop factor is the ratio between the full frame diagonal and a smaller sensor diagonal, used to compare angle of view across…
Cross-browser testing verifies that a website looks and works correctly across different browsers, rendering engines, devices and operating systems.
Cross-platform software runs on several operating systems or device types from one shared codebase, trading some native fit for lower development cost.
Cross-site tracking is the practice of following one person across unrelated websites by linking identifiers to build a profile of browsing behavior.
Crypto mining is the proof-of-work process in which miners spend computing power to add new blocks to a blockchain and earn newly…
A crypto wallet is software or hardware that stores the private keys controlling blockchain assets and uses them to sign transactions.
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset recorded on a blockchain, transferred with cryptographic keys and issued by protocol rules, not a bank.
A cryptographic nonce is a value used only once with a given key or session, keeping ciphertexts distinct and making replayed messages…
CSP (Content Security Policy) is an HTTP response header that tells browsers which scripts, styles and other resources a web page may…
CSRF, cross-site request forgery, tricks a logged-in user's browser into sending unwanted authenticated requests to a web application that trusts it.
The CSS cascade is the algorithm browsers use to decide which competing declaration sets each property value on every element of a…
CSS Grid is the two-dimensional layout system in CSS that places elements into explicit rows and columns defined on a parent grid…
CSS variables are custom properties that store reusable values in CSS, follow the cascade and inheritance, and can change at runtime for…
CSV (comma-separated values) is a plain-text data format that stores tables as lines of records with fields separated by commas, readable by…
A CTE (common table expression) in SQL is a named temporary result set defined with WITH and used by a single query,…
CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model that lets developers run general-purpose code on the thousands of cores of a…
A CUDA core is NVIDIA's name for a single scalar arithmetic lane in a GPU streaming multiprocessor that executes floating-point and integer…
Currying transforms a function that takes several arguments into a chain of functions that each take one argument and return the next…
The customer journey in marketing is the full sequence of stages and touchpoints a person goes through, from first awareness of a…
A customs declaration is the formal statement of what a cross-border shipment contains, what it is worth and where it comes from,…
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is the global catalog of unique identifiers for publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities in software and hardware.
CVSS, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, rates the technical severity of software vulnerabilities on a scale from 0.0 to 10.0 using standard…
CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) is a cybersecurity catalog of software and hardware weakness types, used to classify the root causes of vulnerabilities.