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Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#41

Post by _sentient » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:06 PM UTC

akharris wrote: post #38

andygcook wrote: post #11

Does anyone know who the person in the homepage source code is? view-source: http://www.tutorspree.com/

hint: frequent hn commenter

Looks like Matt Cutts.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#42

Post by leeoniya » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:07 PM UTC

mischanix wrote: post #34

leeoniya wrote: post #22

it adds 11.5k to the page (20% overhead) for an easter egg seems a bit excessive. it would be 10x smaller and more interesting to embed a js1k game or demo in the source.

gzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%

i dont believe gzip typically applies to html, only to loaded text-based resources, js/css. i could be wrong.

either way that page's html does not come in compressed.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#43

Post by saraid216 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

akharris wrote: post #3

Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh). We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).

> PG wins for programming (duh).

...why?

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#44

Post by shellerik » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

oakaz wrote: post #33

I don't see anything interesting.

You may need to maximize your browser to see the effect while viewing the page source.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#45

Post by scott_karana » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

mischanix wrote: post #34

leeoniya wrote: post #22

it adds 11.5k to the page (20% overhead) for an easter egg seems a bit excessive. it would be 10x smaller and more interesting to embed a js1k game or demo in the source.

gzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%

To be fair, I suspect it still amounts for 20% of the gzipped size.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#46

Post by cjreyes » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

interesting. I can see more details when scrolling

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#47

Post by solutionyogi » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

leeoniya wrote: post #42

mischanix wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%

i dont believe gzip typically applies to html, only to loaded text-based resources, js/css. i could be wrong. either way that page's html does not come in compressed.

gzip definitely applies to html in addition to js/css.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#48

Post by scott_karana » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

leeoniya wrote: post #42

mischanix wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%

i dont believe gzip typically applies to html, only to loaded text-based resources, js/css. i could be wrong. either way that page's html does not come in compressed.

Gzip applies to whatever it's configured to apply to, and text\html is likely the most common mimetype gzipped.

tutorspree does indeed load with gzip:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/1.1.19
  Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:19:05 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Connection: keep-alive
  Vary: Cookie
  Content-Encoding: gzip

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#49

Post by buf » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

fs111 wrote: post #39

http://www.last.fm/robots.txt Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self

Virtues last reward is a great game. I hope that the robots of our future will follow this protocol

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#50

Post by mmaia » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:18 PM UTC

sharkweek wrote: post #5

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.

Some companies do that with http headers (e.g. Zappos, SEOmoz, GigaOM)