section.io Website Performance and Security Blog

We have recently released two new features that make it easier to utilize section.io’s CDN for your website. There are two requirements to start serving traffic over section.io:

We have recently released two new features that make it easier to utilize section.io’s CDN for your website. There are two requirements to start serving traffic over section.io:

Suppose you bought the domain name “example.com” for your website. Will your visitors enter www.example.com or just the bare domain example.com in their browser’s address bar to access your site?

As summarised by OWASP, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is “an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they’re currently authenticated”.

As at today I’ve been working with section.io for two years. When I joined the company it provided a fully-managed service to its clients. For many this was the ideal arrangement: by leaving web performance to the people with the skills and the tools our customers were free to focus on building new features.

3rd party JavaScripts can be great. Scripts such as conversion trackers like Google Analytics are great for the marketing team and management. There are scripts out there that conduct AB testing, such as Optimizely. Other scripts help users navigate the site such as auto complete input for search bars, or promoting pages via social networking like Facebook or Pinterest.

As a digital product manager, a key responsibility is to prioritize engineering projects based on business metrics or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These KPIs are typically conversion or engagement related, such as activation rate, monthly active users, or new paying customers. A product manager can then prioritize projects based on a cost-benefit analysis - ie. the project’s impact to these KPIs vs the project’s level of effort required.

At the beginning of 2015 my family realised that living in Sydney, even out in Western Sydney as we were, wasn’t working for us. Too much stress, too much traffic & not enough space. I had been working from home for over a year at that point. My wife & I had talked about getting out of Dodge for years, and we decided that if we didn’t want to regret never trying it we had to do it now.

One of the current go-to tools for people when trying to make their sites fast is Google’s PageSpeed Insights.

What does it look like to turn off 100,000+ CDN PoPs?