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Too bad Google's own page describing Pagespeed and Lighthouse fares abysmally on their own tests. (https://imgur.com/a/56FVOwK https://imgur.com/a/56FVOwK) I'm
by ivoras 7y ago
Too bad Google's own page describing Pagespeed and Lighthouse fares abysmally on their own tests. (https://imgur.com/a/56FVOwK https://imgur.com/a/56FVOwK)
I'm sick and tired of Google playing the role of the global regulator of what's acceptable and what's not. Not everyone can afford own data centers and CDNs to serve content. Not every single page can benefit from SSL.
And web's not the only area they are regulating through monopoly - the number of hoops one has to jump through these days to run an e-mail server, just to have its e-mail acceptable by the holy Google e-mail servers is silly.
- wnevets 7y ago> Not every single page can benefit from SSL. huh?
- opportune 7y agoYou don't need "SSL" (TLS, https, etc.) to serve static, uncontroversial content
- nickserv 7y agoWith Let's Encrypt you really have no reason not too though. And what's not controversial in one country may be in another.
- mqus 7y agoThat only covers the "encryption" part of SSL/TLS. If there is any incentive to fake your content (e.g. for phishing or other attacks, or even simply spreading false information), you'll also want the "authenticity" part of TLS for preventing middlemen from arbitrarily changing content.
- wnevets 7y agoThat's absolutely untrue. For example a man in the middle could intercept and modify the page. https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs-https/ https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...
- opportune 7y agoThis was a good article, I concede the point.
- mpweiher 7y agohttp://objective.st http://objective.st gets a 100% score. No SSL, no CDN. Hosted on a single Digital Ocean droplet. Mind you, also virtually no traffic and very little and lightweight content, but still...