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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

On 4G the comparable daytime numbers were 130 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload (4G does better at night when the network is less congested, with 200/100 upload/download Mbps). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

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If You’re Not Lazy Loading Your Images, You’re Being Wasteful

MachMetrics

Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing). I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

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