Websites are too damn big. The average web page is about 2 megabytes, according to HTTP Archive, a site that tracks the performance of websites and the technologies they use. Sure you can download 2 ...

Google renders all HTML pages for search indexing. Rendering is resource-intensive but necessary for comprehensive indexing. JavaScript-heavy websites are now fully processed by Google. Google renders ...

Your business has a website. You’re not a tech expert. These two sentences describe most business owners, and that presents some challenges. First, you probably don’t care about the process and theory ...

There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no ...

Forth. You either love it or you hate it. If you have struggled to work on tiny microcontrollers, you probably are in the first camp. After all, bringing up a minimal Forth system is pretty simple and ...

All Microsoft's browser rivals are scrambling to speed up JavaScript, trying to get ahead as the Web expands into a foundation for programs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...