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Best IDE Software - A List of the Top 10

Whether you're a seasoned developer or just learning how to code, staying on top of the latest integrated development environments is a constant challenge. Truthfully, there is no best IDE for everyone. The best IDE is the IDE that works best for you, so below is a selection of 10 of the most popular choices to help you figure out which one to pick. IDE explained An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software application that provides a comprehensive set of tools for software development.

December 8, 2016 Read more

Frontend Optimization - 9 Tips to Improve Web Performance

In today's digital world, there are millions of websites accessed every day for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, many of these websites are clunky and bothersome to use. Poorly optimized websites are plagued with a variety of issues including slow loading times, being non-mobile ready, browser incompatibilities, and so on. This post will go over useful techniques you can use to help improve your frontend optimization. By focusing on clean code, compressing images, minimizing external requests, implementing a CDN, and a few other methods, you can dramatically increase the speed and overall performance of your website.

December 1, 2016 Read more

Running High Traffic Websites - 8 Things to Consider

When your website receives thousands of visitors every day, the underlying infrastructure must be able to support the traffic. High traffic means a large number of simultaneous requests from users expecting fast load times. Delays can cost your visitors, reduce revenue and undermine your reputation. Taking a smart approach to high traffic website maintenance cuts down on the load from a large number of visitors and ensures peak performance from your site.

November 24, 2016 Read more

What Is the Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6?

As a web developer or website owner it is always good to stay informed about how changing protocols, such as IPv4, IPv6, and even HTTP/2 affect us. IPv4 addresses are pretty much exhausted now which means the world is transitioning to IPv6. This enables the internet to continue to grow and ensure that as many devices as possible can connect to the internet. Today, we want to dive into the difference between IPv4 and IPV6, and also touch on the subject of what happened with IPv5.

November 10, 2016 Read more

Top 9 Log Analysis Tools - Making Data-Driven Decisions

We live in a time where data is recorded and logged for just about everything. Whether it is for web server uptime, JavaScript errors, database queries, CDN traffic, Nginx errors, etc. You name it, and you can probably log it. In a previous post, we discussed the importance of integrating a log management service into your DevOps workflow. Having centralized logs can be great, but you also need to be able to analyze them efficiently.

November 3, 2016 Read more

Latency Optimization - Tips for Optimal Performance

Network and DNS latency play a huge part in determining just how fast your website or application loads. It will always be there to some extent as you can't get past the laws of physics when it comes to delivering content. The further the content has to travel, the greater the latency. However, that doesn't mean there aren't ways to decrease it. In today's post, we want to share with you a few latency optimization tips which will help ensure the fastest load times for your visitors.

October 20, 2016 Read more

WordPress Performance - Breaking It down by HTTP Requests

WordPress can be a tricky beast as they say when it comes to web performance. Especially if you are comparing it against others running static sites. Because WordPress is based on PHP and most of the content is dynamically generated, it means you need to find other ways to optimize. In today's post, we are going to dive into a fresh WordPress install and take it apart piece by piece, or rather by HTTP requests, to hopefully help you gain a better understanding of WordPress performance.

October 13, 2016 Read more

X-XSS-Protection - Preventing Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

Warning: This article discusses the X-XSS-Protection header, which was once a recommended standard for preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. However, this header has been deprecated and is no longer supported by most popular browsers. Instead, it is now recommended to use Content Security Policy (CSP) to protect against XSS attacks. While the information in this article may still be useful for historical purposes, it is important to note that relying on the X-XSS-Protection header for XSS protection is no longer a best practice.

September 29, 2016 Read more

Why Use a CDN? Here Are 10 Data-Driven Reasons

Perhaps not to anyone's surprise, but here at KeyCDN, one of the most frequently asked questions we get from visitors is "Why Use a CDN?" A CDN has a lot of other advantages besides simply speeding up your content delivery. Today we want to dive more in-depth into answering that question and share with you 10 data-driven reasons why you should be using a content delivery network (CDN) if you aren't already and how it can help your website stay ahead of the competition.

September 15, 2016 Read more

Perceived Performance - Don't Forget the User

Typically when it comes to web performance, speed is everything. We usually recommend not obsessing over GTmetrix, PageSpeed, or Pingdom scores that much and instead focusing on how fast your website is loading. However, one exception to that rule is that you also need to consider perceived performance. In today's post, we will explore why perceived performance can be crucial to your website's success and the best overall experience for your visitors.

September 1, 2016 Read more