JavaScript placement for performance
A new post in Web Application Performance series have been posted. If JavaScript is not placed properly it can reduce front end performance badly. See the post JavaScript Placement to see how JavaScript should be placed.
CSS Placement for performance
Another post in web application performance series has been posted. The post covers how css file should be placed in a web page to improve its performance. You can see the post “Web Application Performance: CSS Placement“on our blog. You can find more post to improve performance at http://www.infotales.com/topic/web-performance-optimization/.
Reducing http requests for performance
In web application performance series if have posted a new post describing how to reduce http requests . Reducing http requests can significantly improve page performance and load time. Stay tuned for more in web application performance series.
Web Application Performance series
I have started a new series of post to enhance web application performance. The series will include different methods to improve web application performance both at server side and front end.
Main topics covered includes
- Using conditional requests, expires header, keep-alive, gzip compression
- Reducing HTTP requests
- Caching images in browser
- Adding gzip Compression
- Proper CSS Placements
- Proper JavaScript placement
- Minimizing CSS and JavaScript code
- Serving images from cookie less domain
- Avoiding HTTP redirection
- Optimizing Ajax
- Using PHP accelerators for web server performance
Stay tuned to be updated about these topics for web performance enhancements.
SEO how to tell Google more about page?
Telling as much as possible to Google about your different pages, can certainly help in SEO. For example if you have a tables of content, or glossary for the site do tell it to Google and other search engines. Now the question is how to do it for that, see Establishing relationship between pages for SEO. In the post different tags are listed with example, to establish relationship between different pages.
For more on SEO please visit http://www.infotales.com/
Search types in Magento
Magento provides different kind of search types. These include “LIKE”, Fulltext and combined. To increase Magento performance what type should be selected? you can find this and more on Magento performance on http://www.infotales.com/magento-performance-search-type-selection/
CRE Loaded exploit allows access to admin without password
An security exploit in CRE Loaded allows any to get into admin are and lot of things like view confidential information about orders, customers, upload files etc. Immediate fix is needed in ALL versions of CRE Loaded older than 6.4.1a.
See the screen shot to see how information can be seen without username password.
You can more details and fix of the issue on http://www.infotales.com/oscommerce-cre-loaded-security-issue-allows-access-admin-area/
osCommerce exploit allows access to admin without password
An security exploit in osCommerce allows any to get into admin are and lot of things like view confidential information about orders, customers, upload files etc. Immediate fix is needed in ALL versions of osCommerce.
See the screen shot to see how information can be seen without username password.
You can more details and fix of the issue on http://www.infotales.com/oscommerce-cre-loaded-security-issue-allows-access-admin-area/
Location of Server, impact on traffic from Google
In my new post I added an live example of server location impacting traffic from Google. You can see the post at http://www.infotales.com/server-location-impact-on-google-traffic/
For more performance optimization tips see http://www.infotales.com/
HTML5: New tags and removed tags
HTML5 is on its way to hit web pretty soon.
See which tags has been added at http://www.infotales.com/html5-whats-new/
and tags removed can be seen
http://www.infotales.com/html4-tags-removed-in-html5/

