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by cbr 14y ago
All these: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/filte... So image optimization, css and js minification, cache extension, css combining, image spriting, ... But offloading things to CDN is actually one of the things it
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by cbr 14y ago
Comments from when someone posted a link to a pre-alpha version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638712
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by cbr 14y ago
Certificate pinning can help with this some.
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by cbr 14y ago
"we've seen the issues on places like Amazon with ratings spamming" My experience with Amazon ratings is that they've been accurate and useful. If there's a spam problem Amazon is dealing with it well, without requiring "real names" or soc
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by cbr 14y ago
the same residual value percentage as the iconic Mercedes S Class, one of the finest premium sedans in the world They make this sound good, but it's not: fancier cars depreciate faster than regular cars. Now, if they offe
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by cbr 14y ago
Why not ship with fsck.zfs="zpool clear -F data"? Then people would stop complaining.
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by cbr 14y ago
two exploits discovered, one sent to half the team, the other sent to the other half That would only work with brazen leaking. If a security team member were selling 0-days to organizations that intended to make extremely lim
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by cbr 14y ago
Letters have laws that special-case them.
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by cbr 14y ago
I would love to see some waterfalls or ideally real-user measurements. Actually, just a few sample pages, one with the Capturing version and one with the standard (media query) version would be helpful. I made some comparison pages myself,
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by cbr 14y ago
Adding a blocking javascript resource that disables speculative resources loading is going to speed up pageloads?
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by cbr 14y ago
Two and a half years could mean a large of increase in maturity at that age.
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by cbr 14y ago
The snippet you paste is for our purposes equivalent to: <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js"> Inside the script there are calls to cookie-dropping javascript functions. The browser makes no distinction betw
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by cbr 14y ago
Referrers are used exclusively for tracking purposes and carry zero positive benefits for the users. This is short sighted. Sites can respond to referrers by improving themselves and better adapting to what users are looking
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by cbr 14y ago
Google Analytics javascript runs on your domain and the cookies it uses are on your domain. So it should count as "first party" here.
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by cbr 14y ago
It's a problem because good comments posted later are much less likely to end up near the top where they will be read.
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by cbr 14y ago
Design for "99% of everyone", not "99% of your current users".
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by cbr 14y ago
Roundup is out of patent.
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by cbr 14y ago
I agree: the vector sharpness of symbol fonts is their strongest selling point. I'm just worried that the article leading with "improving performance is a constant process" is going to make people think symbol fonts will speed up their pag
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by cbr 14y ago
Tip heavier. Shop local (and pay local taxes, and the local markup for the local minimum wage) instead of using your Amazon Prime membership. Consider taking on roommates and paying a higher proportion of the rent. The
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by cbr 14y ago
I'm skeptical that most websites would see a performance improvement in switching from images to symbol fonts. Github is doing it close to optimally: - custom webfont that has exactly what they need (26k) - loaded in js to minimize downloa
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by cbr 14y ago
This is Firefox and IE10 only so far: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fragment
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by cbr 14y ago
With images you can use alt-text to support screen readers and search engines. I would be surprised if someone tried to copy-paste a clock, and if they did I think they would be expecting to get the picture and not a text representation of
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by cbr 14y ago
If these optimizations look like a pain to do manually, mod_pagespeed (apache) and ngx_pagespeed (nginx) can make many [1] of them automatically. Disclaimer: I work on pagespeed. [1] Of the ones mentioned here it can optimize images, inlin
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Improving UX Through Front-End Performance(alistapart.com)
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phrases from out-of-print books Less secure now that there's massive book scanning going on.
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"Security is highly concern."
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by cbr 14y ago
This guy did: http://00f.net/2012/06/02/mod-pagespeed-as-a-proxy-for-your-... And so did this guy: http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-mobile-browsing-conten... You could even take mod_pagespeed and start selling your own competing op
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by cbr 14y ago
It's (currently, at least) opt-in.
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by cbr 14y ago
I thought this too, but after looking into it I understood how it could be used anonymously: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2013-01-28
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by cbr 14y ago
Twitter-like 100% visibility When facebook added this as a secondary stream in the right-hand column, users were really unhappy.

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