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Visitors still see the old CSS or logo: versioned file names and cache busting

You changed the CSS, the logo or a script, and you see the new one but visitors keep seeing the old version. The cause is their browser’s cache: the file…

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Abandoned carts in an online shop: why people leave and how to win some back

Someone picks a product, puts it in the cart and vanishes. It is normal: most visits to a shop do not end in a purchase. What is worth doing is…

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Preparing for a traffic spike: a campaign, a launch or a live event

A traffic spike is not solved on the day: it is solved in the days before. What brings a site down in a campaign is not the total number of…

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The legal pages an online shop needs: terms of sale, returns and privacy

A shop asks strangers for money and data. For that it needs four or five written pages: who is selling and on what terms, what happens on a return, what…

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The canonical tag: duplicate pages, www or not, and which address Google keeps

The same content can open at more than one address: with and without www, on http and https, with a slash at the end or without, or with ?colour=blue after…

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Off-site backups: sending a copy to cloud storage, an S3 bucket or Google Drive

An off-site copy is the one that survives losing the account. There are five ways to get one out: a WordPress backup plugin with a cloud destination, a backup program…

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cURL error 28, 7 and 6 in PHP: timeout, connection refused and could not resolve host

When your site calls an outside service (a payment, an API, an update) and it fails, PHP returns a cURL error number. The three most seen say different things: 6,…

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Disk Usage: finding what fills your account

The account is filling up and you do not know why. cPanel has a screen built for this: Disk Usage, in the Files section. It shows, folder by folder, how…

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What a good page URL looks like, and how to change a bad one safely

A good page address is short, in lower case, with hyphens between words, and says what the page is: yourcompany.com/colour-guide rather than yourcompany.com/?p=1873. It helps readers, helps sharing and gives…

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ModSecurity and web application firewalls: what they do, and what to do when one blocks you

The short answer: a web application firewall (WAF) reads every request reaching your site and refuses the ones shaped like an attack. ModSecurity is the best-known engine, and it is…