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[HTML5 Boilerplate homepage](https://html5boilerplate.com) | [Documentation
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# Extend and customise HTML5 Boilerplate
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Here is some useful advice for how you can make your project with HTML5
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Boilerplate even better. We don't want to include it all by default, as not
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everything fits with everyone's needs.
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* [App Stores](#app-stores)
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* [DNS prefetching](#dns-prefetching)
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* [Google Universal Analytics](#google-universal-analytics)
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* [Internet Explorer](#internet-explorer)
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* [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
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* [News Feeds](#news-feeds)
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* [Search](#search)
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* [Social Networks](#social-networks)
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* [URLs](#urls)
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* [Web Apps](#web-apps)
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* [security.txt](#security.txt)
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## App Stores
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### Smart App Banners in iOS 6+ Safari
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Stop bothering everyone with gross modals advertising your entry in the App
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Store. Including the following [meta
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tag](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html)
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will unobtrusively give the user the option to download your iOS app, or open it
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with some data about the user's current state on the website.
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```html
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<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=APP_ID,app-argument=SOME_TEXT">
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```
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## DNS prefetching
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In short, DNS Prefetching is a method of informing the browser of domain names
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referenced on a site so that the client can resolve the DNS for those hosts,
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cache them, and when it comes time to use them, have a faster turn around on the
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request.
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### Implicit prefetches
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There is a lot of prefetching done for you automatically by the browser. When
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the browser encounters an anchor in your html that does not share the same
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domain name as the current location the browser requests, from the client OS,
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the IP address for this new domain. The client first checks its cache and then,
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lacking a cached copy, makes a request from a DNS server. These requests happen
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in the background and are not meant to block the rendering of the page.
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The goal of this is that when the foreign IP address is finally needed it will
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already be in the client cache and will not block the loading of the foreign
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content. Fewer requests result in faster page load times. The perception of this
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is increased on a mobile platform where DNS latency can be greater.
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### Explicit prefetches
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Typically the browser only scans the HTML for foreign domains. If you have
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resources that are outside of your HTML (a javascript request to a remote server
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or a CDN that hosts content that may not be present on every page of your site,
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for example) then you can queue up a domain name to be prefetched.
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```html
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//example.com">
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com">
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```
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You can use as many of these as you need, but it's best if they are all
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immediately after the [Meta
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Charset](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta#attr-charset)
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element (which should go right at the top of the `head`), so the browser can act
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on them ASAP.
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#### Common Prefetch Links
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Amazon S3:
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```html
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//s3.amazonaws.com">
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```
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Google APIs:
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```html
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com">
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```
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Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network:
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```html
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//ajax.microsoft.com">
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<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com">
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```
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### Further reading about DNS prefetching
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* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-DNS-Prefetch-Control
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* https://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching
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* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/internet-explorer-9-network-performance-improvements
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## Google Universal Analytics
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### More tracking settings
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The [optimized Google Universal Analytics
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snippet](https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/async-analytics-snippet#universal-analytics)
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included with HTML5 Boilerplate includes something like this:
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```js
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ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-X', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');
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```
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To customize further, see Google's [Advanced
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Setup](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/),
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[Pageview](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/pages),
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and
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[Event](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events)
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Docs.
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### Track jQuery AJAX requests in Google Analytics
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An article by @JangoSteve explains how to [track jQuery AJAX requests in Google
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Analytics](https://www.alfajango.com/blog/track-jquery-ajax-requests-in-google-analytics/).
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Add this to `plugins.js`:
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```js
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/*
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* Log all jQuery AJAX requests to Google Analytics
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* See: https://www.alfajango.com/blog/track-jquery-ajax-requests-in-google-analytics/
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*/
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if (typeof ga !== "undefined" && ga !== null) {
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$(document).ajaxSend(function(event, xhr, settings){
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ga('send', 'pageview', settings.url);
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});
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}
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```
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### Track JavaScript errors in Google Analytics
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Add this function after `ga` is defined:
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```js
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(function(window){
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var undefined,
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link = function (href) {
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var a = window.document.createElement('a');
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a.href = href;
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return a;
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};
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window.onerror = function (message, file, line, column) {
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var host = link(file).hostname;
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ga('send', {
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'hitType': 'event',
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'eventCategory': (host == window.location.hostname || host == undefined || host == '' ? '' : 'external ') + 'error',
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'eventAction': message,
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'eventLabel': (file + ' LINE: ' + line + (column ? ' COLUMN: ' + column : '')).trim(),
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'nonInteraction': 1
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});
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};
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}(window));
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```
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### Track page scroll
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Add this function after `ga` is defined. Note, the following snippet requires jQuery.
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```js
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$(function(){
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var isDuplicateScrollEvent,
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scrollTimeStart = new Date,
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$window = $(window),
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$document = $(document),
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scrollPercent;
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$window.scroll(function() {
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scrollPercent = Math.round(100 * ($window.height() + $window.scrollTop())/$document.height());
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if (scrollPercent > 90 && !isDuplicateScrollEvent) { //page scrolled to 90%
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isDuplicateScrollEvent = 1;
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ga('send', 'event', 'scroll',
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'Window: ' + $window.height() + 'px; Document: ' + $document.height() + 'px; Time: ' + Math.round((new Date - scrollTimeStart )/1000,1) + 's'
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);
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}
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});
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});
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```
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## Internet Explorer
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### IE Pinned Sites
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Enabling your application for pinning will allow IE users to add it to their
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Windows Taskbar and Start Menu. This comes with a range of new tools that you
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can easily configure with the elements below. See more [documentation on IE
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Pinned
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Sites](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/samples/gg491731(v%3dvs.85)).
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### Name the Pinned Site for Windows
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Without this rule, Windows will use the page title as the name for your
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application.
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```html
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<meta name="application-name" content="Sample Title">
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```
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### Give your Pinned Site a tooltip
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You know — a tooltip. A little textbox that appears when the user holds their
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mouse over your Pinned Site's icon.
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="A description of what this site does.">
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```
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### Set a default page for your Pinned Site
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If the site should go to a specific URL when it is pinned (such as the
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homepage), enter it here. One idea is to send it to a special URL so you can
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track the number of pinned users, like so:
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`https://www.example.com/index.html?pinned=true`
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="https://www.example.com/index.html?pinned=true">
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```
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### Recolor IE's controls manually for a Pinned Site
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IE will automatically use the overall color of your Pinned Site's favicon to
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shade its browser buttons. UNLESS you give it another color here. Only use named
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colors (`red`) or hex colors (`#ff0000`).
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="#ff0000">
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```
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### Manually set the window size of a Pinned Site
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If the site should open at a certain window size once pinned, you can specify
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the dimensions here. It only supports static pixel dimensions. 800x600 minimum.
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=800;height=600">
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```
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### Jump List "Tasks" for Pinned Sites
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Add Jump List Tasks that will appear when the Pinned Site's icon gets a
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right-click. Each Task goes to the specified URL, and gets its own mini icon
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(essentially a favicon, a 16x16 .ICO). You can add as many of these as you need.
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Task 1;action-uri=http://host/Page1.html;icon-uri=http://host/icon1.ico">
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<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Task 2;action-uri=http://microsoft.com/Page2.html;icon-uri=http://host/icon2.ico">
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```
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### (Windows 8) High quality visuals for Pinned Sites
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Windows 8 adds the ability for you to provide a PNG tile image and specify the
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tile's background color. [Full details on the IE
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blog](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/high-quality-visuals-for-pinned-sites-in-windows-8).
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* Create a 144x144 image of your site icon, filling all of the canvas, and using
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a transparent background.
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* Save this image as a 32-bit PNG and optimize it without reducing colour-depth.
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It can be named whatever you want (e.g. `metro-tile.png`).
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* To reference the tile and its color, add the HTML `meta` elements described in
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the IE Blog post.
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### (Windows 8) Badges for Pinned Sites
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IE will poll an XML document for badge information to display on your app's tile
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in the Start screen. The user will be able to receive these badge updates even
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when your app isn't actively running. The badge's value can be a number, or one
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of a predefined list of glyphs.
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* [Tutorial on IEBlog with link to badge XML
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schema](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/pinned-sites-in-windows-8)
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* [Available badge
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values](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/tiles/badgeschema/element-badge)
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```html
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<meta name="msapplication-badge" value="frequency=NUMBER_IN_MINUTES;polling-uri=https://www.example.com/path/to/file.xml">
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```
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## Search
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### Direct search spiders to your sitemap
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After creating a [sitemap](https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html)
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Submit it to search engine tool:
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* [Google](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-list)
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* [Bing](https://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster)
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* [Yandex](https://webmaster.yandex.com/)
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* [Baidu](https://zhanzhang.baidu.com/) OR Insert the following line anywhere in
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your robots.txt file, specifying the path to your sitemap:
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Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap_location.xml
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```
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### Hide pages from search engines
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According to Heather Champ, former community manager at Flickr, you should not
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allow search engines to index your "Contact Us" or "Complaints" page if you
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value your sanity. This is an HTML-centric way of achieving that.
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```html
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
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```
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**_WARNING:_** DO NOT INCLUDE ON PAGES THAT SHOULD APPEAR IN SEARCH ENGINES.
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### Firefox and IE Search Plugins
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Sites with in-site search functionality should be strongly considered for a
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browser search plugin. A "search plugin" is an XML file which defines how your
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plugin behaves in the browser. [How to make a browser search
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plugin](https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=how+to+make+browser+search+plugin).
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```html
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<link rel="search" title="" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="">
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```
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## Miscellaneous
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* Use
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[polyfills](https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills).
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* Use [Microformats](http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page) (via
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[microdata](http://microformats.org/wiki/microdata)) for optimum search
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results
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[visibility](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html).
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* If you want to disable the translation prompt in Chrome or block Google
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Translate from translating your web page, use [`<meta name="google"
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content="notranslate">`](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812).
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To disable translation for a particular section of the web page, add
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[`class="notranslate"`](https://support.google.com/translate/?hl=en#2641276).
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* If you want to disable the automatic detection and formatting of possible
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phone numbers in Safari on iOS, use [`<meta name="format-detection"
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content="telephone=no">`](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html).
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* Avoid development/stage websites "leaking" into SERPs (search engine results
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page) by [implementing X-Robots-tag
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headers](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/804).
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## News Feeds
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### RSS
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Have an RSS feed? Link to it here. Want to [learn how to write an RSS feed from
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scratch](https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification)?
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```
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### Atom
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to it. [See what Atom's all
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about](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard)).
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```html
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="/atom.xml">
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### Pingbacks
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Your server may be notified when another site links to yours. The href attribute
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should contain the location of your pingback service.
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```html
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<link rel="pingback" href="">
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```
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* High-level explanation:
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https://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks
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* Step-by-step example case:
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https://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback-1.0#TOC5
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* PHP pingback service:
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## Social Networks
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### Facebook Open Graph data
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You can control the information that Facebook and others display when users
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share your site. Below are just the most basic data points you might need. For
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specific content types (including "website"), see [Facebook's built-in Open
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Graph content
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templates](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/opengraph/using-objects).
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Take full advantage of Facebook's support for complex data and activity by
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following the [Open Graph
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tutorial](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/getting-started).
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For a reference of Open Graph's markup and properties, you may check [Facebook's
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Open Graph Protocol reference](https://ogp.me). Finally, you can validate your
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markup with the [Facebook Object
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Debugger](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/) (needs registration to
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Facebook).
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```html
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<meta property="fb:app_id" content="123456789">
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<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.example.com/path/to/page.html">
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<meta property="og:type" content="website">
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<meta property="og:title" content="">
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<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg">
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<meta property="og:description" content="">
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="">
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<meta property="article:author" content="">
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```
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### Twitter Cards
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Twitter provides a snippet specification that serves a similar purpose to Open
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Graph. In fact, Twitter will use Open Graph when Cards is not available. You can
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read more about the various snippet formats in the
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[official Twitter Cards
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documentation](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/overview/abouts-cards),
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and you can validate your markup with the [Card
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validator](https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator) (needs registration to
|
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Twitter).
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```html
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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
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<meta name="twitter:site" content="@site_account">
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<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@individual_account">
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<meta name="twitter:url" content="https://www.example.com/path/to/page.html">
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<meta name="twitter:title" content="">
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<meta name="twitter:description" content="">
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<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg">
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```
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### Schema.org
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Google also provides a snippet specification that serves a similar purpose to
|
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Facebook's Open Graph or Twitter Cards. This metadata is a subset of
|
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[schema.org's microdata vocabulary](https://schema.org/), which covers many
|
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other schemas that can describe the content of your pages to search engines. For
|
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|
this reason, this metadata is more generic for SEO, notably for Google's
|
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|
search-engine, although this vocabulary is also used by Microsoft, Pinterest and
|
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Yandex.
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|||
|
You can validate your markup with the [Structured Data Testing
|
|||
|
Tool](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool). Also, please
|
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|
note that this markup requires to add attributes to your top `html` tag.
|
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|
|
|||
|
```html
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<html class="no-js" lang="" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article">
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<head>
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|
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|
<link rel="author" href="">
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|
<link rel="publisher" href="">
|
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|
<meta itemprop="name" content="">
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|
<meta itemprop="description" content="">
|
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|
<meta itemprop="image" content="">
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|
```
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|
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|
## URLs
|
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|
|
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|
### Canonical URL
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Signal to search engines and others "Use this URL for this page!" Useful when
|
|||
|
parameters after a `#` or `?` is used to control the display state of a page.
|
|||
|
`https://www.example.com/cart.html?shopping-cart-open=true` can be indexed as
|
|||
|
the cleaner, more accurate `https://www.example.com/cart.html`.
|
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|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<link rel="canonical" href="">
|
|||
|
```
|
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|
|
|||
|
### Separate mobile URLs
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
If you use separate URLs for desktop and mobile users, you should consider
|
|||
|
helping search engine algorithms better understand the configuration on your web
|
|||
|
site.
|
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|
|
|||
|
This can be done by adding the following annotations in your HTML pages:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
* on the desktop page, add the `link rel="alternate"` tag pointing to the
|
|||
|
corresponding mobile URL, e.g.:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
`<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
|
|||
|
href="https://m.example.com/page.html" >`
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
* on the mobile page, add the `link rel="canonical"` tag pointing to the
|
|||
|
corresponding desktop URL, e.g.:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
`<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/page.html">`
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
For more information please see:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
* https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
## Web Apps
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
There are a couple of meta tags that provide information about a web app when
|
|||
|
added to the Home Screen on iOS:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
* Adding `apple-mobile-web-app-capable` will make your web app chrome-less and
|
|||
|
provide the default iOS app view. You can control the color scheme of the
|
|||
|
default view by adding `apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style`.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
|
|||
|
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
* You can use `apple-mobile-web-app-title` to add a specific sites name for the
|
|||
|
Home Screen icon.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
For further information please read the [official
|
|||
|
documentation](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html)
|
|||
|
on Apple's site.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
### Apple Touch Icons
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Apple touch icons are used as icons when a user adds your webapp to the home
|
|||
|
screen of an iOS devices.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Though the dimensions of the icon can vary between iOS devices and versions one
|
|||
|
`180×180px` touch icon named `icon.png` and including the following in the
|
|||
|
`<head>` of the page is enough:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
For a more comprehensive overview, please refer to Mathias' [article on Touch
|
|||
|
Icons](https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons).
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
### Apple Touch Startup Image
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Apart from that it is possible to add start-up screens for web apps on iOS. This
|
|||
|
basically works by defining `apple-touch-startup-image` with an according link
|
|||
|
to the image. Since iOS devices have different screen resolutions it maybe
|
|||
|
necessary to add media queries to detect which image to load. Here is an example
|
|||
|
for an iPhone:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" media="(max-device-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" href="img/startup.png">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
### Chrome Mobile web apps
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Chrome Mobile has a specific meta tag for making apps [installable to the
|
|||
|
homescreen](https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen)
|
|||
|
which tries to be a more generic replacement to Apple's proprietary meta tag:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Same applies to the touch icons:
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="highres-icon.png">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
### Theme Color
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
You can add the [`theme-color` meta
|
|||
|
extension](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-theme-color)
|
|||
|
in the `<head>` of your pages to suggest the color that browsers and OSes should
|
|||
|
use if they customize the display of individual pages in their UIs with varying
|
|||
|
colors.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
```html
|
|||
|
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ff69b4">
|
|||
|
```
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
The `content` attribute extension can take any valid CSS color.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Currently, the `theme-color` meta extension is supported by [Chrome 39+ for
|
|||
|
Android
|
|||
|
Lollipop](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/11/Support-for-theme-color-in-Chrome-39-for-Android).
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
## security.txt
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
When security risks in web services are discovered by users they often lack the
|
|||
|
channels to disclose them properly. As a result, security issues may be left
|
|||
|
unreported.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Security.txt defines a standard to help organizations define the process for
|
|||
|
users to disclose security vulnerabilities securely. Include a text file on your
|
|||
|
server at `.well-known/security.txt` with the relevant contact details.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Check [https://securitytxt.org/](https://securitytxt.org/) for more details.
|