July 18, 2004
Brevity is a good thing. Absolute, verbose URLs are out, relative short URLs are in. By carefully naming your files and directories, and judicious use of
abbreviation with mod_rewrite and
content negotiation with same, you can speed up your pages while maintaining legibility and search engine positioning.
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New England and the Far West have the highest residential broadband penetration rates, according to the Leichtman Research Group. Hawaii, Massachusetts, and New Jersey top all U.S. states in residential broadband penetration. Overall, US broadband penetration grew by 0.87 percentage points in June, with 49.48% of active Internet users on high-speed connections at home. 50.52% of US home users dial into the Internet with "narrowband" connections of 56Kbps or less.
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July 13, 2004
Called the "Swiss Army knife" of Apache modules, mod_rewrite can be used for everything from URL rewriting to load balancing. Where mod_rewrite and its ilk shine is in abbreviating and rewriting URLs.
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July 6, 2004
You can make your URLs shorter and more abstract by using content negotiation to strip file extensions from your markup and source code. You'll save a few bytes off of each object reference, and migration headaches in the future when you change technologies.
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