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Practical guides on website monitoring, GDPR/EAA compliance, security headers, SEO and Core Web Vitals — from real work with XICTRAQ.
Measuring Returning Visitors Without Cookies
Cookies last seven days in Safari and at most 400 in Chrome. How to measure return anyway: as a cohort, without any read or write access to the device.
Keyboard Navigation Testing: Barriers a Scan Misses
Automated scans cover roughly half of all WCAG failures. Tab order, keyboard traps and obscured focus belong to the other half - here is how to test them without a mouse.
Incomplete Certificate Chains: Browser Yes, App No
The browser shows the padlock while the application fails: how an incomplete certificate chain arises, why it stays invisible and how to prove it.
Health Check Endpoints: Shallow Checks Are Not Enough
Why a 200 from the health endpoint says nothing about the database - and how to separate liveness, readiness and startup with time budgets and status codes.
Canonical Tag Errors: When the Wrong URL Ranks
Canonical declarations rarely fail on the line itself, but on an invalid head section, rendering and contradictions. How to measure the state continuously.
Turn Off Version Banners: What Your Headers Reveal
Server, X-Powered-By, X-AspNet-Version: response headers name product and version. What the disclosure causes, which setting helps and what stays visible afterwards.
Chrome Every Two Weeks: Shorter Test Windows From 2026
From 8 September 2026 Chrome ships a new major version every two weeks. What that means for test windows, beta checks and monitoring browser flows.
Monitoring Coverage Audit: The Pages You Forget
Green means checked, not healthy. How a complete URL inventory grows out of sitemap, server log, crawl and search index, and where each source fails on its own.
Cookie Banner Reform 2026: What the Draft Would Change
A proposal from Brussels would move the cookie rules into the General Data Protection Regulation. What Section 25 TDDDG requires today, what Articles 88a and 88b propose, where the procedure stands and which work pays off under either regime.