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What is HTTPS?

11 March 2021 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

HTTPS secures the connection to the website you are visiting. I’m sure you have seen this in action; look at the address bar in the browser and find the lock icon on the left-hand side. Is the lock closed? Then the connection is secure. Is it open, or is there another type of icon or …

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Moving your website to HTTPS / SSL: tips and tricks

12 July 2017 | 26 Comments Jimmy Comack

In 2014, we decided to switch over to the (now) commonly-used HTTPS protocol to encrypt sensitive data that’s being sent across our website. This post describes some useful tips based on our own experiences that might come in handy if you’re considering switching. Addendum March 2021 Moving your WordPress site to support HTTPS connections with …

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Performance optimization in an HTTP/2 world

22 December 2016 | 28 Comments Davey Smeekens

A revolution is currently going on in the underpinnings of the web. HTTP, the protocol your browser uses to connect to your site, has a new version: HTTP/2. This is not something that should concern the average user, but for web developers, it changes how we do performance optimization entirely. In this short article, I want to …

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