Tag: Best Practices
Declare a doctype in the Document
Why do I need to declare a doctype? The doctype tells browsers what kind of content the web page contains. The doctype can also tell...
Serve your content using HTTP/2
What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a major update to the HTTP network protocol, which is the technology used to send website requests and to receive...
Declare a charset in the page
Why do I need to declare a charset? A charset, or character encoding, is the set of characters (i.e letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.) a...
Declare the Language Code for the Page
What is a Language Code? The language code tells visitors the natural human language of the web page content. Many tools and applications use the...
Use a Page Title
Why is a page title so important? The page title provides search engines the most important information about the content of the web page or...
Have a good URL format
Why does it matter? A good URL format clearly tells users and search engines what the page is about, even if the page does not...