With faster devices and networks, websites can now focus on creating a rich user interface. This allows for an engaging website with all the bells and whistles that can capture and hold a user’s attention. However, it isn’t always that simple and can come with a cost, namely the site’s hosting, visitor’s data and bandwidth…
Category: Web Development
Sideways Dictionary: Simplifying Tech Jargon
As a software developer, one of the most important parts of my job is helping a client understand the technology available to them and how it can help streamline their business. The trouble is, tech jargon is notoriously hard to understand and often even harder to explain. Seriously, who hasn’t stumbled across a term like…
Does my Website Need HTTPS?
If you find yourself struggling to grasp website security, then this is the article for you. With that said, I will try to cut out the jargon and explain only the need-to-know. The two aspects we’ll concern ourselves with are SSL and HTTPS. A few issues we will go over are what SSL and HTTPS…
What is Google Web Light?
Recently, while looking through our Google Analytics data for bad referrals and other spam traffic to exclude from our reporting, we noticed a new hostname in one of our profiles for: {example-website}.com.googleweblight.com. Curious if this was spam traffic or something from Google, we did some digging. If you see this data in your Google Analytics…