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Is there an easy way to see amount of compression in Chrome?
I am busy checking how my web server is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as Chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip HTTP header.
Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in the Chrome developer tools?
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How come com.google is a valid domain name?
https://com.google appears to be a Google upside-down-rightside-left.
But how come .google is a valid domain name? Or wait, .com is and it is just somehow reversed using some hidden technique? Oh, April 1st after all …
But anyway, I googled for…
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My domain registrar has gone bankrupt but the domain is locked, what can I do?
My domain is registered through a company that has gone bankrupt. The domain status (according to the whois database) is:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited…
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Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms?
From what I have read, Google no longer uses meta keywords in it's ranking algorithm. Is it worth the effort to maintain meta keywords?
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Does it make a difference if your URL path ends in a trailing slash or not?
Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths/
as opposed to one that does not:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths
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Which browsers handle `Content-Encoding: gzip` and which of them has any special requirements on encoding quality?
I am creating a "hand made" HTTP 1.0, 1.1 server. I recently integrated zip lib so now I can stream encoded gziped data in and out. I wonder which major browsers (alive ones - IE6-IE10, Chrome, FF, etc.) send Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, ... and…
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Are page ranks for subdomains independent?
If I have a domain name say stackexchange.com and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site.
Will x.stackexchange.com help out y.stackexchange.com in page rank? Or will google treat them as 2 separate sites as far as page rank is…
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Is gzipping images worth it for a small size reduction but overhead compressing and decompressing?
Most image formats are already compressed. But in fact, if I take an image and compress it (gzipping it), and then I compare the compressed one to the uncompressed one, there is a difference in size, even though not such a dramatic difference.
The…
charlie
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