Web Analytics
I created my own web analytics system from scratch
I’ve removed Google Analytics from my website and built my own data-collection tool to focus on the metrics that matter to me and doesn’t impact visitors’ privacy.
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Image Files
Progressive JPEGs make a meaningful impact on perceived performance
Make a meaningful improvement in user experience for your website visitors, especially those with slow internet, with semi-progressive JPEG loading.
Web Browsers
Safari’s Beacon API problems
You must implement the Beacon API the way WebKit deems to be “the right way” to make it work on iOS, Safari, and WebKit browsers.
Hardware
Choosing a monitor: 4 K, 1440 p, ultra wide, or what?
Where do you even begin to choose from the overwhelming number of monitor options on the market? How I prioritized features when choosing a replacement monitor.
Compression
Compressed favicons are 70% smaller but 75% are served uncompressed
The majority of websites don’t compress their favicon files despite an impressive average file size reduction of over 70 %.
Linux
How to disable outgoing mDNS broadcasts on Linux
Tutorial for quieting Multicast DNS using various firewall front-ends for Linux’s iptables firewall such as FirewallD and Ubuntu’s UFW.
Advertisement Technology
My thoughts on Firefox blocking tracking/ad cookies by default
A small Google AdSense publishers’ perspective on Firefox’s new cookie-blocking policy change. It can be good for the open web ecosystem in the long run.
Syndication feeds
Many feed readers don’t handle plain text with XML-entities correctly
Plain text isn’t HTML. Many clients decode it as XML and then strip away the resulting HTML anyway. The spec is clear, but many implementations are buggy.
MacOS
How to fix MacOS “update package has been deleted” errors
An error message indicating that Apple removed a software update from its servers may be caused by an issue with a local content caching service.
HTML
URLs don’t belong in <meta> elements
Why the <link> element, a metadata element for link type data, is better suited for links than the more generic <meta> element.
Internet Archive
How to archive a page or an entire website in the Internet Archive
A quick tutorial using wayback_archiver to submit single webpages or entire websites to the Internet Archive’s collection.
Linux
How I archived 26 500 old Ask Fedora community Q&As
Ask Fedora removed tens of thousands of questions-and-answers, but you can now access all of them through the Internet Archive.