article thumbnail

Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms. Injection A query or command that inserts untrusted data into the interpreter, causing it to generate unintended commands or expose data.

article thumbnail

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

A font-display setting for slow connections

CSS - Tricks

Matt Hobbs : If there’s one thing I’d like readers to take away from this post it’s that font-display: swap is a very good option for users with a fast internet connection. The font is either applied super fast, or isn’t used at all (but still downloaded async). Seeeee, I told ya.

Cache 96
article thumbnail

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

article thumbnail

Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. As usual, I was minding my own business.

Cache 105
article thumbnail

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Mbps upload.

Cache 96
article thumbnail

How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92