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Article 15 Requests: What Your Tracking Must Disclose
An Article 15 request reaches your tracking data too. Two decision points determine what you disclose - and the one-month clock starts on receipt.
unload Is Going Away: Keep Analytics Data Complete
Chrome is switching off the unload event in stages. How to capture dwell time, scroll depth and cart abandonment completely again by measuring on the visibility change.
Real Visitor IP: Getting X-Forwarded-For Right
Behind a proxy, load balancer or CDN your log holds the wrong address. How to set the trust boundary and read X-Forwarded-For reliably.
Measure Attention: Scroll Depth Instead of Bounce Rate
Bounce rate only shows whether a second page followed. Scroll depth, visible time per section and events show how far people read - and all three can be collected without touching device storage.
Origin Behind the CDN: When Cache Hides an Outage
An uptime check can report green while the origin server has long been down: the edge answers from cache. How Age and Cache-Status expose the blind flight and how two separate check paths reveal the outage before visitors do.
Detect Cloaking: When Googlebot Sees Another Page
Cloaking serves crawlers different content than visitors, often after a hack. How to measure the deviation with four fetches and monitor it continuously.
Q4 Traffic Peaks: Site Readiness Before Peak Season
How a shop prepares for the fourth quarter from mid-September: a staged change freeze, tighter check intervals, percentiles instead of averages, deadlines and an alert chain somebody actually acknowledges.
End of Life in the Web Stack: Components Without Updates
Support windows for PHP, Node.js, Angular and other building blocks end by calendar. How to inventory components, calculate remaining runtime and plan the move before the CRA deadline.
COOP, COEP, CORP: Setting Cross-Origin Headers Correctly
COOP separates window groups, COEP governs the load paths, CORP releases resources. What each header does, which values get confused and how to keep the state under observation.