Nginx – enabling brotli compression with gzip fallback

nginx brotli and gzip fallback

What is Compression? Compression is a technique used to reduce the data size as reducing the data size means that data is smaller and smaller data will travel over the internet faster improving site response times. Most of the websites/web-servers these days should use compression – and it is truly mind-boggling that according to the … Read more

changedetection.io – be aware of potentially heavy traffic with selenium webdriver

selenium web driver

changedetection.io with selenium webdriver is a very powerful tool to monitor for website changes. Just wanted to share a warning for other who are potentially not aware of the mighty traffic this great tool can generate with even a handful of urls. Why use changedetection.io with selenium webdriver selenium webdriver Couple days ago I had … Read more

Safari on both macOS and iOS – link font preload with crossorigin=”anonymous” not working loading from the same domain

I recently had an issue where fonts loaded via link HTML element with crossorigin=”anonymous” attribute would mysteriously not load but only in safari (both ios and macOS). Firefox and Chrome on Linux desktop and android mobile were handling the same code without an issue. For the purpose of this post – the domain in question: … Read more