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What is the benefit of forcing a site to load over SSL (HTTPS)?

Let's say I have a large content-only site; no login or logout, no usernames, no email addresses, no secure area, nothing secret on the site, nada. People just come to the site and go from page to page and look at content. Besides a slight bump in…
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Loading main javascript on every page? Or breaking it up to relevant pages?

I have a 700kb decompressed JS file which is loaded on every page. Before I had 12 javascript files on each page but to reduce http requests I compressed them all into 1 file. This file is ~130kb gzipped and is served over gzip. However on the local…
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Why would my site load slower after I switched to https?

I bought and implemented an SSL certificate on my website and it seems to load a lot slower than before. Why does this happen and how can it be fixed?
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Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server

Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users per day and, at a first glance, we don't have very…
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100% CPU usage while stressing with SIEGE -c5

I've tried apache benchmark and siege for stressing my web server, unfortunately my VPS CPU goes 100% with only 5 concurrent users. I'm also using cache engine for my wordpress site. According to the bellow info and results, shoudnt my system be…
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Why sometimes images load top-bottom, and sometimes by "enhancing" resolution?

In everyday use of internet, i notice that most times, any image that loads, loads by "growing" itself vertically, from top to bottom,. that is, you first see only a few rows of pixels, and it increments until it is full height. I.e, the way an…
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Will moving to Facebook/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?

I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup. Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit the cache. The only time it serves up a new page…
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Can you force text to not display if font is not loaded?

I am using a custom font to display some text at the beginning of my blog post. What I desire, is for the text to display only if the font has been installed by the user. Here is my first attempt:

An interesting numbering system
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Should I create a sitemap file and, if so, what should I add to it?

I submitted my website/app to Bing and Google recently. I subsequently received this email from bing: Dear Webmaster, This is a weekly report on the open issues categories we have detected on your site. http://example.com/ Sitemaps 1…
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How to find concurrent number of session per second?

As a web-server hosting an application for a client, which is high-volume or transaction server, I am required to find out "number of concurrent connections" currently in use by the server. This is required for a solution e.g NGFW, or WAF that is…
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How many pageviews can my server handle per day?

I'm sharing some space on a dedicated server, but I'm not sure of the exact specifications. It is very fast though, and the person who I'm sharing the server with say they spend about 1400 a month on it and they are the same servers used by the…
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Content loading during scrolling and seems infinite (what script)

I've noticed on several websites that when you scroll down it loads content as your scrolling and this seems to go on forever.... What script is used for that loading system?
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Troubleshooting CPU Utilization Spikes on AWS ECS

Our production system has frequent spikes in CPU Utilization. These spikes occur even when the application does not have high usage. Here is an example of how we have CPU Utilization spikes frequently. The CPU Utilization also spikes to 100% very…
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Can internal linking create excessive web server load?

SE sites allow tags chaining like this: /questions/tagged/seo+google+search-engines+research+keywords This site has more than 700 tags. If up to 5 tags can be chained, there are 700*700*700*700*700 = 168070000000000 links that google can crawl.…
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How can I trigger a simple preloader animation right after the content above the threshold loads?

I want to achieve the following pageloading effect: A full-screen white overlay fades out when the content above the threshold loads, and not after the full page loads or by using a delay. How can I accomplish that? Thanks!
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