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| bio | website | tfountain.co.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 31 | |
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PHP/Rails Developer based in the UK.
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CMS software - why is it still so immature? What other CMSes did you try? |
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How to respond to attack on web site apps.db.ripe.net/search/… - is the whois for that IP. The abuse email address is on there if you wish to report the issue to the ISP |
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May 11 |
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Expiry date in response header contradicts the cache-control setting Cache-Control and Expires are separate headers. Do you have something else setting the Expires header? |
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May 11 |
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Etags are not appearing on PHP pages If you mean the modified date of the PHP script, this is risky, but it depends a bit on what your script does. Imagine a PHP script that simply outputs the current time - if that script sent an ETag based on it's own last modified date, it would be wrong, as the HTML content would change when the time does but the ETag would not. |
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May 7 |
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Yandex.Metrica: can I redirect from /favicon.ico to the 1×1 gif counter? Just to add that browsers definitely do cache favicons that do exist, this is quite easy to verify: webpagetest.org/result/130507_A7_Q9A (compare favicon request in first view and its absence in the repeat view). |
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May 7 |
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Yandex.Metrica: can I redirect from /favicon.ico to the 1×1 gif counter? I wouldn't expect browsers to cache the result of a request that resulted in a 404, but if you've ever tried to change a favicon you'll know that browsers can hang on to the old one for much longer than they would a normal image (regardless of cache headers) so I think they treat them differently. I take your point about page rendering, but if I can pedantically argue semantics, the favicon is part of the 'page load', so adding in a redirect does slow down the page load, even if it may well technically improve the page render time. |
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Apr 26 |
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Soft 404 error on redirected outbound links Can you provide the URL to a page with one of these links on? |
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Apr 25 |
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What is the best topic to write about stackoverflow? Perhaps you could write about the types of questions that are suitable for stack exchange sites? |
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Apr 23 |
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How Do I Make A Dynamic PHP Link 'No-Follow'? The important point is, adding nofollow to a link doesn't save any 'link juice'. This is something Google changed a few years ago to prevent what was called 'page rank sculpting'. nofollow is for links you don't trust, it was created primarily to combat comment spam. So like Zistoloen said, there's no reason to use it on your own links. |
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Apr 20 |
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content If that's just for pagination, Googlebot will be able to index the other pages assuming they're linked from page 1. But you'll probably find Google will ignore those if they look very similar to the first page. |
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Apr 19 |
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content Yup, so you need http://mydomain.com/Search.aspx?category=business in your sitemap too. |
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Apr 19 |
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content If the pages only appear after searching, you either need to link to them from somewhere on your site (perhaps from a 'popular searches' page), or add them to your sitemap (possibly both). |
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Jul 30 |
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Unable to print login-required images in IE The user is viewing the images directly (i.e. example.com/private/chart.jpg), they aren't viewing them embedded within a HTML page. Authentication is a PHP session based login system. |
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Apr 10 |
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How to force browsers to always reload xslt files? My point was that Last Modified helps browser know when they can use their cached version of a resource. If you want the browser to always fetch a fresh copy, you probably don't want to use Last Modified at all. |
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Mar 31 |
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How to force browsers to always reload xslt files? You probably don't want to hardcode the Last Modified date to a set value. You're telling the browser "hey, this is the same file you got last time, it's not changed for 12 years". |
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Nov 20 |
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What's the best way to load Javascript into a page to optimize performance? The difference is the location of the blue line, which I'm guessing is when the page starts to be rendered. From the end user's point of view, this is when the page is "loaded", as this is when they start seeing stuff. In the first example, render starts after the last JS file is loaded, at the 900ms mark. In the second, it's after the stylesheets are loaded (~700ms). In the third, it's after the HTML has been downloaded (~500ms). I would still go with the second approach, as you don't really want CSS loading after the page render. |
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Sep 26 |
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Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed? There's a big difference between being "full of crap" and "a little misleading", but sorry if I misunderstood you. Improving site speed is a great thing to work on because it benefits the user, and if you've seen better rankings then great. But personally I have seen no evidence to disprove the info in John's answer, which is what Google themselves have said. |
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Sep 26 |
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Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed? Nginx, APC and file compression have no effect whatsoever on the time it takes to do a DNS lookup; and yes the user would need to download multiple copies of the same file if they get a different CDN host. Really the only reason to go down this route is if you need to spread your load between CDNs, so I'd stick to one. |
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Sep 26 |
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Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed? Just one other consideration: if a user might potentially get different CDN domains as they move between pages on your site, you're adding DNS lookups, which will have a negative effect on speed (albeit a very minor one). |
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Sep 26 |
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Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed? So you believe pure speculation from people with no insider knowledge whatsoever over what Google themselves say about their own service? |
