Nowadays, even regular Web surfers know some of the things to avoid when designing a Web site for fast performance: Cut the number of requests to the Web server. Shrink JPEG sizes. Employ a content ...

Websites are too damn big. The average web page is about 2 megabytes, according to HTTP Archive, a site that tracks the performance of websites and the technologies they use. Sure you can download 2 ...

Google Chrome is getting a new feature that increases security when clicking on web page links that open URLs in a new window or tab. When inserting links into an ...

This week’s question comes from Thomas, who asks: I disabled the JavaScript just to check the content of my webpage, but unfortunately I could not see any content except the banner H1 tag. Will it ...

Scraping at scale is less about brute force and more about engineering to the web you actually face: dynamic, encrypted, template-driven, and chatty. If your design reflects those realities, ...

Google Chrome will soon be able to block JavaScript redirects when users click on a web page link that opens a URL in either a new window or new tab. For those ...