Topics by Dani

Probably a silly question, but is Argo Smart Routing (the usage-based product) only applicable to content served at the origin? Otherwise, does it makes sense to be spending money to find a more efficient path between the end-user and the edge? Isn't the edge already pretty darn close?

I modified our database library today to not connect to the database unless required. Previously, it automatically connected on every page. However, especially on pages that just pull from the cache, database connections aren’t necessary. Hopefully this should provide some incremental performance improvements. In the meantime, please keep an eye …

If you love DaniWeb, or even if you don't, it would be much appreciated if you could [review us on Google](https://g.page/r/CSyiHReUFoTLEAI/review). Much thanks!!

Anyone out there use Hootsuite or Buffer or one of the others? Are you an agency or just manage your own social?

We were recently hit hard by the latest core algorithm update. Since then, we turned off our AMP pages and our crawl rate, which had been rather consistent for the past many months, has been steadily climbing. Can we draw any conclusions? Is a climbing crawl rate a positive signal …

According to [this page](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/experience/signed-exchange), Google requires "as a rule of thumb" that the SXG expiration date is less than 1 day in the future if the content is JS, or otherwise 7 days in the future. My external Javascript files are immutable. Why should they have a 1 day cache …

I am trying to get the hang of Google Analytics 4. One of the conversions that we track is sign ups. I'm seeing a lot of conversions attributed to the Organic Social group. However, a lot of these conversions are people who found the site some other way (e.g. organic …

Is there any news yet as to what the December 2020 core update focused on? What types of sites were the biggest winners vs biggest losers?

The new Crawl Stats in Google Search Console shows a breakdown of how much googlebot recrawls existing content for refreshing its index, and how much is discovery of new content. Has anyone been working on increasing the rate of new content and seeing that correlate to a linear increase in …

Has anyone read about any studies, or has any anecdotal evidence, that might demonstrate that detailed schema.org/Person markup about an author improves the authoritativeness of an article or tutorial in Google's eyes?

This question specifically relates to PHP's Memcached library when specifying a server key and adding multiple keys at once. **Question one**: Is it true that PHP's setMultiByKey() doesn't take advantage of the memcached server's native support for setting multiple keys at once, but that the logic is on PHP's side …

Ever wonder what DaniWeb was like way back in the day? Well now you don't have to guess. Forums and tags have a new filter in the dropdown to list all Archived topics.

How do you handle your link discoverability when also using infinite scroll. As we know, Google has been ignoring link rel=prev/next for years. A lot of my older content is showing up with no internal links. I do have HTML page navigation but it’s hidden with `display:none`

How did you fare in this week’s core update? Losses for us.

The DaniWeb member list has been recently reintroduced, and with some additional featuers to boot ... For the last handful of years, it was only available as a bare bones moderators-only tool. I've added a bunch of filtering and sorting onto it, and you can now access it via the …

To incentivize potential answerers, sponsors now enjoy double their reputation power ... in other words, how many points you can influence someone else's reputation by. The goal is that people will be more motivated to answer questions asked by sponsors, because when sponsors vote up their posts, they carry double …

I have always known that urlencode() encodes spaces as plus signs and rawurlencode encodes spaces as %20. However, I always struggled to know when to use which. I just finally learned today that you should use rawurlencode() if encoding URI paths and urlencode() if encoding query strings. Who woulda thunk …

Our CSS and JS files are not being re-downloaded by web browsers when we update them. The response headers look like this: cache-control: max-age=7776000 content-encoding: gzip content-type: text/css; charset=UTF-8 date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:41:59 GMT etag: W/"5e34c19d-68a08" expires: Fri, 01 May 2020 02:41:59 GMT last-modified: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 …

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We lost a lot of Google traffic beginning Tuesday, December 10th. Has anyone else experienced an algorithm update around this date? It seems to be related to [this article](https://www.seroundtable.com/december-11th-google-search-ranking-algorithm-update-28673.html) on Search Engine Roundtable that shows that there's some chatter going on.

Does anyone have any experience with EBDA? As a publisher, how can I leverage it as an alternative to header bidding?

Hi, A notification just started showing up in my AdSense that says: **Earnings at risk - You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.** It gives me the ability to download an ads.txt file and upload it to my domain root. Here are …

An oldie but a goodie, for you Canadians out there. I thought I'd make the solution provided within [this thread](https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/hardware/threads/94301/help-my-keyboard-does-french-instead-of-question-marks) a bit easier to discover for those still suffering from the problem. To switch between English and French keyboards, press `Shift+Control`.

We just recently (read, today) implemented SameSite cookies to prevent CSRF attacks. The thing is, while there's a decent amount of information online about the benefits of them, I can't find any other sites that implement them. Not even any of the big ones I would suspect were spearheading something …

Has anyone had a positive experience with the new AdSense auto ads? They say they use machine learning to find the optimal placement for ads on your page, but they don't show any examples. How much faith can/should I put in their placement AI?

Is it possible to mass-migrate text ads to expanded text ads with the Google AdWords Editor? (Not via the website)

What are your top AdSense countries in terms of eCPM? Mine are Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Somalia, Iraq, Cuba, Iran, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Haiti ... Crazy, eh?!?! Some of them beat out the US by a factor of twenty!

iOS Safari Reader View is only available for forum threads on DaniWeb that have zero replies, and it shows the original post. Anytime there are replies, it gets confused and shows nothing. How can I semantically fix my html5 to correct this behavior? Not only is it good for accessibility, …

Has Facebook peaked? Everyone with internet access already has an account. Younger kids prefer instagram (albeit fb owned) and snapchat, and Facebook is being seen as where your parents and grandparents go to share family photos. Will they pivot? Either way they're making a serious amount of money that could, …

I was impressed when I logged into Google Analytics and noticed that instead of sampled data I was presented with a drop down menu where I could choose if I cared more about accuracy or speed. I was then thoroughly less impressed when I selected to focus on accuracy and …

Due to some complaints, the private message inbox now more closely resembles the pre-Dazah version. Archived conversations no longer show in perpetuity.

I have two different conversion goals set up in AdWords. Is it possible to set a CPA bid for Campaign #1 to only take into consideration one goal, and a CPA bid for Campaign #2 to only take into consideration the other goal?

Any entrepreneurs in India out there in Internet land? I just stumbled upon this article https://developers.google.com/startups/ called the Google Launchpad Accelerator where Google is bringing startups from India all expenses paid for a 2 week accelerator program in Silicon Valley. Obviously the goal is so that startups will have more …

Does anyone have any experience with Google's PageSpeed Module? https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/ How often does it break things?

How on earth do I get Google Analytics to filter out the tremendous amount of referral spam that is showing up in my reports?! For those of you who are unaware of what I'm talking about, do a google search for "google analytics referral spam" to see what I mean. …

The bug related to post attachments that got introduced over the past couple of days should now be fixed. Attachments to private messages will be coming soon.

This is an important notification that DaniWeb is in the process of being upgraded, and will most likely be down and/or in read-only mode for the remainder of th is evening. When it comes back up, it *may* be buggy ... we'll see. I've rewritten every single line of code …

In Google DFP Small Business, is there any way to force the same creative to display in multiple ad positions on the same page? I have Show As Many As Possible checked, but it only seems to apply to different creatives.

I just noticed tonight that the Login via Facebook feature hasn't been working for an embarassingly long time (aka multiple days). I checked it out, and apparently FB decided to change something on their end to break our OAuth integration. It was an easy fix, and it's working again. Sorry …

Who thinks that vBulletin providing a cloud-based offering is going to restore any type of faith in their product? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2476015#post2476015

I'm not (hehe), but I was just wondering who in the DaniWeb community was going to CES this year?

Anyone around here own a tech publication and use NetShelter. They just announced earlier this week that they were sold to Ziff Davis. They're a big player in the industry so just wondering if it impacts anyone out there in Internet land?

I'm trying to debug my PayPal IPN code. Here is my PHP code: if ($this->input->post('payment_status') == 'Completed' AND in_array($this->input->post('txn_type'), array('web_accept', 'subscr_payment'))) { $query = 'cmd=_notify-validate&' . http_build_query($this->input->post()); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); if ($result == 'VERIFIED') …

I know I promised not to make anymore drastic changes to the API, but ... well ... I lied. The two API write operations (voting on posts and watching/unwatching articles) used to always respond with a JSON object in the format success: true or success: false Now, they return the …

Is it possible to generate a DFP Small Business ad tag that forces a particular creative or line item, that I can use as a backfill ad tag for an ad network?

I have an Office 365 account (Hosted MS Exchange). I deleted a few accidentally created calendars in my MS Exchange account. Everything is synced just fine (with the one remaining calendar) in Outlook 2013, my iPhone, and on the Office 365 website. However, the Windows 8 calendar app refuses to …

Aside from breadcrumbs, what rich snippets can be used for forums? Can authorship work since there are multiple authors per page? or no?