The web is in a golden age of front-end development, and JavaScript and technical SEO are experiencing a renaissance. As a technical SEO specialist and web dev enthusiast at an award-winning digital marketing agency, I’d like to share my perspective on modern JavaScript SEO based on industry best practices and my own agency experience. In this article, you'll learn … [Read more...] about The Definitive Guide to JavaScript SEO (2021 Edition)
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How to Remove Render-Blocking JavaScript From Your WordPress Website
Have you ever finished creating a WordPress website and loved everything about it? Then, promptly began to hate it after realizing it takes forever to load? Not only are slow loading speeds a nuisance for you and your visitors, but they can also cost you significantly when it comes to SEO. Since 2010, Google algorithms have accounted for loading speed in ranking decisions, … [Read more...] about How to Remove Render-Blocking JavaScript From Your WordPress Website
Visa warns of new Baka credit card JavaScript skimmer
Visa issued a warning regarding a new JavaScript e-commerce skimmer known as Baka that will remove itself from memory after exfiltrating stolen data. The credit card stealing script was discovered by researchers with Visa's Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) initiative in February 2020 while examining a command and control (C2) server that previously hosted an ImageID web … [Read more...] about Visa warns of new Baka credit card JavaScript skimmer
How to Get Started with Jest for JavaScript Unit Testing
Jest is a framework for running “Unit Tests,” a way for you to test the individual functions and components from your codebase to ensure future commits don’t break something unexpected. We’ll show you how to set it up, and use it with a front-end framework like React. What Is Unit Testing? Testing is very important when working with a team of programmers—any commits pushed to … [Read more...] about How to Get Started with Jest for JavaScript Unit Testing
Google sign-ins will require JavaScript soon
Google users who have disabled JavaScript in the browsers that they are using to browse the Internet won't be able to sign-in to their Google accounts anymore soon unless they enable JavaScript for the login process. Google announced yesterday that it will make JavaScript mandatory on sign-in pages and that it will display a "couldn't sign you in" message to users who have it … [Read more...] about Google sign-ins will require JavaScript soon
Microsoft-owned GitHub is acquiring JavaScript developer platform npm
Microsoft has announced plans to acquire npm Inc, the company behind popular JavaScript package manager npm. No details of the amount of money involved have been revealed, nor the timing of the acquisition, but Microsoft says that it plans to integrate npm into GitHub. Both companies feels that acquisition will help the open source community in general, but the JavaScript … [Read more...] about Microsoft-owned GitHub is acquiring JavaScript developer platform npm