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Lazy loading images and videos: what to defer and what never to

Lazy loading makes the browser request an image or a video only when it is about to appear on screen, instead of downloading them all at the door. It saves…

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Ransomware explained: how it reaches a website or a computer and how to be ready

The short answer: ransomware is malicious software that encrypts your files and demands a ransom to give them back. You cannot avoid it entirely, but you can prepare: keep everything…

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cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk: what actually differs between control panels

They do the same job with different menus. All three are hosting control panels: a web page where you create e-mail accounts, databases, domains, DNS records and backups without typing…

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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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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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Why your site does not show on Google: a checklist

“My site does not show on Google” can mean very different things. Google may not know it, may know it and have set it aside, the site may be stopping…

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After a hack, which backup do you restore? Choosing a clean copy

The short answer: restore the last copy from before the infection, not the most recent one. If you restore yesterday’s copy and the site had been infected for a week,…

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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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Fake orders and spam sign-ups in WooCommerce: how to stop them

One day the shop wakes up with dozens of pending orders from odd names, small amounts and made-up e-mails. Or with hundreds of new accounts nobody created. It is not…

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A website form that is safe and spam-free: honeypot, captcha and validation

The short answer: a form is a door that anyone, and any robot, can try. To keep it spam-free, add a trap field (a honeypot) and, if needed, a captcha.…