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Questions tagged [web-applications]

Web applications are applications that are accessed over the "web", which can mean the Internet, or an internal network (an intranet).

In a web application, the user's browser functions as a (thin) client. The heavy-lifting is done by code on the server side. Web applications follow the client-server model in general. Some examples of web applications include Google Calendar, Zimbra, and Office Outlook Web Access.

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How important is responsive web design?

I've heard a variety of opinions regarding the pros and cons of using responsive web design recently and was wondering whether it was necessary for small businesses that target small geographical areas to implement responsive web design? Some…
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Do search engines perform JS rendering while crawling?

I have couple of websites recently created (~8 months) and Google is marking them as "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" or "Page with redirect" errors How I implemented: Browser requests webserver for webpage Webserver returns back the…
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How can I measure website page load times from different countries?

Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers. I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based users and those from other countries. I tried to…
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What's the point of placing self links on a webpage?

I often see links on webpages that link to the page itself. For example on forums, blogs and even here the topic title is a link and points to the page itself. What's the point of doing this?
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Protect Javascript code from being stolen

I developed a web app with jQuery, HTML, and CSS markup which would be a premium web app. So I have to ensure the security of the code from being stolen. But, as all these are client side, there is no 100% secure way to protect them. But I want to…
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SEO for single-page content-less Web App

as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties: doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only offers functionality consists of only one…
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How to do SEO for web application?

I have developed a website which is like a web application. A user must log-in to visit/view other pages. I want the login page to be the only one found by Google. The SEO guidelines that I found online are more for blogs or websites which have…
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Duplicate content appearing for multi lingual sites

I have a site which has a default url say "http://www.blahblah.com/" (which is default in english language). In my site there is support for multi languages. I am having few links at my home page say "English" "French" "Spanish" etc. and on clicking…
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Should I patent a web application before launching it?

While discussing a website idea I had with friends and worked on it, they told me to be wary of theft regarding the website. Since the code I'd be working on would be mostly JavaScript and HTML, the likelihood of theft is quite high. Furthermore,…
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Working around Flutter's Lack of SEO Support

I wanted to familiarize myself with Flutter, and began working on a webapp in Flutter Web and have completed a fair amount of work in the language at this point. It wasn't until very recently that I found out that Flutter has little to no SEO…
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Should HTML5 web games use the VideoGame or WebApplication schema?

I've implemented Microdata with Schema.org for my online game. I've tested it on Google's test tool, and it seems to work. If you go to Schema.org, you can see that both VideoGame and WebApplication types come from SoftwareApplication. Then, as my…
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app URI scheme fallback URLs

I am working on a mobile friendly website and liked the idea of having my URLs open in native apps; like say to Google Maps or Facebook using custom URI protocols eg fb:// or comgooglemaps://. Unfortunately on a desktop the browser (Chrome for…
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Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?

Question: Is there such a thing as a self-hosted framework or CMS especially tailored towards the creation of interactive web applications without -- or with an absolute minimum of -- programming? (Substantially less programming than say a simple…
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Help with tracking sub domain

I currently have my app's marketing/external website on the root level, e.g. http://example.com My web app itself is hosted at: http://app.example.com What's the best strategy to set-up Google Analytics tracking for both of them? Should I create a…
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Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?

I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might be over-engineering too), but I was wondering if…
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