It is a well-known fact that external links can be opened in a new browser window via target="_blank". It is a little-known fact that this can cause security risks and performance issues on your own webpage.
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Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
How to get 100 points on SSL Labs
Hi All,
A bit about how to get 100 points in all 4 test from SSL Labs.
First:
You need to create RSA 4096 bits key for certificate. Not 2048, but 4096.
Handy frontend tools in Chrome
Chrome 60 will be released to the public very soon but there are two handy frontend tools worth noting, which were introduced in Chrome 59: identify unused CSS and JS on a particular page and take a full page screenshot.
Critical Above-the-Fold CSS for the rescue
Nowadays site loading time became a very important parameter, especially when it comes to the search engine rankings.
If you’ll test your site with Google Pagespeed tool, it will probably show that your site has some issues with content-blocking stylesheets. This means that the browser won’t paint content to the screen until your CSS has been downloaded. To fix this issue, Google recommends us to split our styles into two parts: critical (above-the-fold) and non-critical. Critical CSS should be inlined in the header meanwhile non-critical needs to be loaded asynchronously, so a user could see styled content as soon as possible. Continue reading
CSS layout tools
The day has come. There is no need any more for floats or tables or other hacks to create page layouts on the web. CSS can do it. Finally, it has its own tools for laying out pages properly.
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Squeezing all the juice from HTTP/2
Since we are well into the 21st century and HTTP/1.1 is no longer enough for most of us, let’s discuss some ways we can speed up our websites to run them faster, more securely, etc.
Many people have heard of HTTP/2 protocol, but not everyone knows how to use all its features.
Lets take a look at some 🙂
Personalizing cached HTML pages with Varnish
Everyone is using Varnish to speed up their sites nowadays. Varnish greatly decreases page load time on websites with mostly anonymous traffic. But many anonymous sites still need to personalize content a bit based on user geo location, time-of-day, the languages the browser claims to support, etc.
Header bidding and page load speed
Although improving page load time is the second biggest reason to use header bidding vs. daisy chaining (after the increased revenue), it has its own problems when it comes to site speed. Due to the single-threaded nature of browser JavaScript runtime and the limited number browser / OS resources, header bidding is likely to add seconds to your average page load time.
Floating (and coding) on Cloud9
I was always a bit skeptical of the whole Cloud IDE thing, that was until recently when I gave Cloud9 a shot. I must admit, I was surprised when I read the Engineering Orientation wiki page for one of our clients, Vroom.com, as it suggested I create a Cloud9 IDE account as part of my project setup. What??
I figured I’d give it a try…
Drupal 8: Views scrollTop behavior
It’s a weird piece of Drupal 8 out-of-the-box behavior: each time after you AJAX-load a views block with exposed filter, you are scrolled to the top of the block! It’s especially tiresome for mobile device users… Is there a way that we can fix it??
Removing this behavior entirely is a massive improvement. Here is a recipe to circumvent the issue for Drupal 7 – but it won’t work for Drupal 8! But search no more. Here for you is the exact solution: