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A WebP image is a new modern next-gen format that provides exceeding image compressions. The most significant advantage of utilizing WebP images is better site speed, as these images will load & render a lot faster. For comparison, lossless WebP images can be 26% smaller in size than the same image in PNG format, whereas, […]
Many, if not all website owners, rely on site analytics — at least to a certain extent — to understand where their users come from. Technically, the act of knowing which websites are referring traffic to your site is achieved via the referrer header. Now, how much information (more on that) is revealed of the […]
Response headers contain a lot of useful details about a web document/file that is sent over the internet. A very known example is a text/html content type, or in other words, a regular HTML page, as the non-technical folks would say. The information inside a response header has nothing to do with what you see […]
Cloudflare is taking performance & website load times very seriously when it comes to assisting users who leverage their services. Quite recently, it launched a beta on early hints 103 HTTP code. Almost hand in hand, it seems, they also unveiled the “Automatic Signed Exchanges” beta in partnership with Google — with the primary purpose […]
The hunger for serving site users with faster and quicker load times is still on, and while we have made significant positive leaps towards that goal, there is so much room for improvement left, that we constantly push newer Internet standards & best practices, as well as develop more efficient methods of communicating page resources […]
Web Browsers are a beautiful creation that allows us to view & use web pages on the internet. The governing fundamentals that make that happen transpire at the speed of light. From the many, one of the core principles is DOM — or short for — Document Object Model. What Is DOM (Document Object Model)? […]
If you’ve ever run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights, and came across “preconnect to required origins,” this post will cover the ground on what that message conveys, and specifically, focus on the rel=”preconnect” aspect. If you’re interested in dns-prefetch, you can check out my previously written post, where I discuss the necessary details to […]
As the name suggests, dns-prefetch is a hint for modern web browsers that strives to calculate the IP address of a domain present on a page. In other words, it’s already prefetching the information — prior to it being requested. How Does dns-prefetch Help? On its most fundamental level, one of the core activities that […]
A lot of the initiatives in the web development world and the search engine rankings have been around providing a positive user experience. From the many, web performance holds great importance. And from the myriad of options available for improving site speed, link rel Preload is one of them. What Is rel=”preload” ? When rel=”preload” […]
As we progress towards a more personalized digital world, you will start to experience increased content geared towards you. And what you see on a webpage may be entirely something else than what others see because of their personalization activities. This by nature — where content is served uniquely to each – often falls into […]
If you’re just getting into marketing and analytics, data and behavior tracking, or even programming/web development, one of the common terms that you’ll often hear thrown around or read about is ‘CSS selectors.’ Amongst a bunch of them, two of the commonly used CSS selectors are ID and class. Both these selectors help apply styling […]
If you look up the actual definition of “semantics,” you’ll get answers around it having to do with meaning or its study. Along the same line, HTML5 semantic elements serve that purpose as well. On a super high-level, HTML5 semantic elements aim to: Provide guidance about an element to a browser. In other words, give […]