That will keep check on cheap hosting packages. What is the use when you start a project that will fail on Google?
No, browser cache. It would be good to use a CDN. But no good if your CDN is not good enough.
What you said is true. I need to optimise the images and discourage unwanted ones.
Google has not spoke about image hosts, right ?
You want to integrate images through image hosts ? Is that what you are thinking ?
While it is an all interesting idea, I will never do that on this board. Keep the images locally is one of important points to do when you run a tech board.
I may however would like to find a solution to this. I hope we are all set to meet that requirement.
I like it better when the default avatar is mainly CSS. Saves a lot of time optimizing it.
That is another piece of code. But I think that will be much better than the size of default avatar image.
Google has announced that as of Chrome 68, all HTTP pages will be marked as " not secure ".
That nails it. With Chrome's popularity, it is hard to not to switch to HTTPS. It requires time and effort. And in some cases money too. Not every host is support Let's Encrypt as of now. I mean, shared hosting providers.
Well, each webmaster worries more about his own project that anything. So that is justifed.
It won't give it wholly. If the cloud hosting account is faster than normal shared hosting, that should definitely help your SEO.
CDN and good caching mechanism can help boost up the speed. Google always make the guidelines more stricter.
You mean server side caching ?