section.io Website Performance and Security Blog

At section.io we commonly rewrite HTML to remove over-zealous attempts at domain sharding.

You need social media on your website right?” The Social Media experts have insisted it is a no brainer.” You have developed your social media strategy which the CEO has “Liked” and you have now instructed the development team to get the Buttons, Links and Like numbers on your web pages.”” Now you just need to relax as the website goes viral on FB and Pinterest.

When people come to your website, often the majority of the time that they’re waiting for the site to load is caused by the browser needing to download files from your server. “Things like images, javascript and css. “Even when they’re properly minified and compressed these things take time to download. “Also, each time someone requests a file, your server needs to respond to it: it needs to”establish the connection, render the content (image or text) then it needs to travel down the wire through all the different connections to the visitor’s browser. And without caching it has to do this same thing every time for every visitor for every page they visit.

There is a great hype on the mobile web at present; and rightly so.” We all know your users” mobile experience is increasingly important. Anyone who works in the web space will have been assaulted at some point with one or more of the following catch cries; Mobile First Design, Mobile Native Apps a Must, iOS before Android (or vice versa),” Web Apps are Better than Native Apps, HTML5 is the Answer, etc.