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Can I develop and test WordPress and PHP without a domain name?
This is quite doable. XAMPP should work fine for this. The biggest gotchas will be converting any code that does not use relative addressing to work with a domain and HTTPS.
You can likely get closer ...
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How to test a set of browser touch icons, favicons and tiles for a website?
I've always used the favicon generator at realfavicongenerator.net, which allows you to see how your chosen artwork will appear on different devices. There are quite a few options and you can try with ...
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Does a good but less than perfect Pagespeed Insights score hurt the chances of a page ranking in Google?
One thing that others have not mentioned yet is competitor speed metrics. If you score an 86/100 and you have a competitor site that is very similar to yours (i.e. similar backlink profile and on-page ...
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What's a good method for testing out a new web page for just a small set of users?
Personally, I utilize my database's users table.
# fname lname email beta_access username [...]
1 James Doe [email protected] true ...
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How can I test my site in IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft provides, freely and without registration, virtual machines for:
IE8 on Win7
IE9 on Win7
IE10 on Win7
IE11 on Win7
IE11 on Win81
Edge on Win10
For the following platform:
VirtualBox
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Testing SEO website
here is a list of some web tools, but you can't test them offline:
Métatag générator
http://www.outils-referencement.com/outils/pages-web/balises-meta
robot.txt generator
http://robots-txt.com/
W3C ...
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JMeter: how to asign a single distinct value from CSV Data Set Config to each thread in thread group?
Case 1
When you know number of occurrences to be substituted in the existing request:
Take a loop counter define it with loop count as the number of occurrences you need to substitute.
Insert a CSV ...
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Does a good but less than perfect Pagespeed Insights score hurt the chances of a page ranking in Google?
If the 86/100 is the mobile score, the desktop score is likely ~95-100.
I have many sites that score like this, and have no problems ranking content on either desktop or mobile.
This will not hinder ...
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Can I develop and test WordPress and PHP without a domain name?
It is quite trivial do do so. The simplest way is just to pretend you have a domain by adding it to your internal network. If you only develop on one computer, then just change the hosts (/etc/hosts ...
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Can I develop and test WordPress and PHP without a domain name?
Absolutely. For doing everything on your computer (or locally), I recommend Local by Flywheel. While the other answers (XAMPP, Docker) work great, I think Local by Flywheel greatly simplifies the ...
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Does a good but less than perfect Pagespeed Insights score hurt the chances of a page ranking in Google?
A good score in Google PageSpeed is good for the following reasons:
Reduce the bounce rate.
Increase the returning visitors.
Better SEO positions on desktop and mobile.
By the contrary, a slow site ...
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Can I develop and test WordPress and PHP without a domain name?
You can also use WordPress in Docker for a quick local setup, or to use on a container-based environment, like Netlify who are free for small projects. Here is a feature about using WordPress on ...
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View a website as a Chinese vistor from outside China
There are probably several ways to do this.
If content is displayed based on IP location you would need a VPN.
If content is displayed based on GEO location you can spoof you location using several ...
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Test website without domain name
If you are using suphp as your PHP handler you can use https://1.2.3.4/~user/directory if it is in a subdirectory or https://1.2.3.4/~user if it is in your public_html directory.
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Test website without domain name
You can create the test domain as a separate domain in CPanel and then reference it by using your primary domain followed by the test domain name. I.e., log in to CPanel as though you were going to ...
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Could it hurt our rankings if Google's mobile friendly test says some resources don't load due to "other error?"
Couldn't really tell if they will hurt your rankings given your situation but I'd recommend to have things fixed so that you do not possibly show any chance for Google or your competitor to get ahead ...
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Some documents load slowly during stress test, how reliable is NameCheap shared hosting?
Nothing stands out as worrisome to me in your test results. Of note is that some of your requests take well over a second to load, but that is to be expected on any very cheap shared hosting provider.
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How to safely test SEO impact of rearranged content
You need any A/B testing tools to allow you two create two different versions of the same page(s) and test which design or modifications yields the best results.
Google Analytics is a free ...
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Block inline scripts from executing?
The Firefox add-on NoScript should be able to block all JavaScript, including the JS included in the current page.
Just make sure that you don’t enable the setting that the current page is always ...
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Block inline scripts from executing?
Just turn of JavaScript in your browser.
Disable JavaScript in Chrome:
Click the Chrome menu Chrome menu in the top right hand corner of your browser
Select Settings
Click Show advanced ...
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Client wants to review test results/documentation
Okay. I used to develop large-scale applications for global telecoms, major global NGOs, etc. Periodically, someone would interject themselves into the process for what ever reason. Be careful, ...
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How can i check the query string parameters for Internet Explorer in Google Analytics?
I came up with an answer finally after an year.
now i am using HTTP watch extension.
https://www.httpwatch.com/download/
Go to the above URL and download the free edition. Run the .exe file.
Then ...
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How can i check the query string parameters for Internet Explorer in Google Analytics?
I am struggling with GA too. I cannot find the query string parameters in IE, but I can use the Developer Tool in Chrome. Click the Network tab and filter the GIF file sent to Google server, then ...
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How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?
Firefox Multi-Account Containers seems to be the accepted solution for this nowadays.
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