Cloud-based reputation checks
There are various ways in which reputation can be securely retrieved without slowing the web access down so much in such a manner that may create a poor user experience. The main point of concern that the users and the developers should ask themselves is the level of security needed, that is, how secret the reputation should be kept. In this case, it is noted that if the attackers get to know that a given malicious site has a poor reputation, they may end up responding by making alterations to the domain of the site or they may as well consider making some other evasive actions.
Overhaul hosting is the other way in which the reputation can be securely retrieved without slowing the web access down in a manner that may create a poor user experience. If an entity is still using some sort of hosting that it was using before expansion and growth, it should consider upgrading it to a more reliable platform. The shared plans do not have the bandwidth to hold high traffic. Besides, the traffic loads of other sites may negatively impact the speed of the performance of the site. Therefore, if the visitors get to experience high volumes, the site may suffer in terms of its reliability.
The other way in which the speed of the web access can be maintained while securely retrieving the reputation is streamlining the design of the site. In this case, it is recommended that the page design should be made simpler. Other measures to be put into consideration include cleaning up the script to remove any unnecessary characters, in a process known as minification (Zittrain, 2008). Besides that, the other way that can be used to make the website design simpler is to consider uploading media by the use of an image optimizer. Apart from that, the user should consider minimizing the plugin use or should alternatively choose a lightweight plugin on the CMS platforms. Last but not least, the other way that can help in boosting speed is avoiding the use of redirects wherever possible.
On the other hand, the optimization of the delivery of content is the other critical move that can help in securely retrieving reputation while maintaining the web access speed. In most instances, people consider using CDN which is the content delivery network as a move for a high traffic website. CDN is a global application that is mainly used for purposes of optimizing the delivery of content for the local visitors. In a traditional setup, the content of the site is hosted on the main server in a single location with some of the host offering different locations and this depends on where the user is. Such kind of scenario restricts the overall speed at which the content can reach distant areas.
Caching for better performance is the other technique that can be used to securely retrieve reputation while maintaining the speed of web access. For every time the visitor comes to the site, the browser may store components of the pages and this includes content as well as scripting. Caching helps in the elimination of a large number of requests between the browsers and the servers. The use of the CDN is one of the ways that can help in improving the caching of the static assets, though there are also some caching techniques that can be used (Kleppmann, 2017). Still on the method of caching, one can do this by updating the expirer header for the files.
Last but not least, file compression through the use of zip files is the other way that can be used to cut down on the times of content delivery. Some of the tools that can be used, in this case, include packer, JSCompress, along with Google Closure Compiler. The mentioned tools can help in reducing or rather removing redundant characters as well as unnecessary spaces that may exist in the codes. Apart from that, such applications can also be used to compress the script files so as to enhance speedy delivery. If the site at hand is known to have a lot of custom scripting, minification of the code can serve a great deal in the improvement of the load times.
References
Kleppmann, M. (2017). Designing data-intensive applications: The big ideas behind
reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.
Zittrain, J. (2008). The future of the Internet and how to stop it. New Haven [Conn.:
Yale University Press.