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...