The internet is, by nature, an interactive medium. Although you may want to read the writing and look at pictures on the page, you want a way to interact with it – whether that’s to click on a hyperlink, play a video or fill in a contact form.However, it takes a certain amount of time […]
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Website accessibility is first and foremost about making sure visitors with specific accessibility requirements can ‘view’ your website, whether that means visually or using a screen reader to read the page aloud. In principle, accessibility is an issue that affects human visitors to your site. The search robots typically ‘fetch’ your pages as if they […]
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It stands to reason that page speed is an important element in good website design. Pages that load faster become interactive faster, and that means your visitors face less of a delay in becoming paying customers.Slower loading pages suffer higher abandonment and bounce rates, as some visitors will simply give up if the page doesn’t […]
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SALT.agency is proud to be attending the Internet Summit 2018, taking place on Thursday 14 June. Throughout the day we’ll be providing live commentary from some of the talks and discussions that we’ll be attending.
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TL;DR Websites that are built using React.JS are perfectly SEO-friendly when built correctly. If you are going to build a website that renders the front-end using React.JS, then make sure you render the first version before serving it to the search engines. It is no news to anyone that old browsers which can’t render the […]
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TL;DR Read this post, it is important! Want to do a little hack your self, go here The Impact When your website is hacked, the long term effect on your SEO is probably not the first thing to spring to mind. At the time of an attack, your first priority, among other things, is likely […]
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Back in early January I wrote an article on the security of public Wi-Fi networks, which discussed and demonstrated how unsecure public Wi-Fis are. From it, we asked website owners move onto SSL/TSL protocols. As of yesterday this is now even more important as the major Wi-Fi security protocol, WPA2 has been found to have a severe flaw which […]
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It’s easy to take the internet for granted. Sure, we might sometimes forget just how important a role it plays in society. Not all of the internet is serious and that’s part of its charm. The silly side of the internet, embodied by memes and cat videos, means we don’t always appreciate the remarkable importance […]
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You might not know it but due to a lack of technical security testing, some industrial systems are at risk of severe cyber attacks. Industrial Control Systems, commonly known as ICS, can cover everything from transport and water to nuclear reactors. It’s no surprise then, that potential vulnerabilities are cause for serious concern. According to […]
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It is midday on a Tuesday and I am sat sipping a latte in my work clothes, with my MacBook on the table in front of me. I’m working from a coffee shop located in the centre of Leeds, which is surrounded by busy offices filled with solicitors, bankers, ecommerce companies and public sector organisations. […]
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On October 21st (2016) we witnessed one of the largest online DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks ever. Hackers targeted Dyn, a US-based company that hosts domain name systems. This in turn affected a large number of popular websites and services, including Spotify, Twitter, Survey Monkey, Netflix, and Eve Online. It’s thought that hackers were […]
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Your connection to this site is not secure, is perhaps one of the scariest messages a normal internet user can see right before they close their tab and move on. What does this mean to an online business? Lost client, customer or user. For years sites have been serving their non-sensitive content over open protocols but in the recent years this has […]
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