https://stackharden.com/tags/edge/Recent content in Edge on StackHardenhttps://stackharden.com/og-default.pnghttps://stackharden.com/og-default.pngHugoenMon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/core-web-vitals-glossary/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/core-web-vitals-glossary/PageSpeed Insights gives you back a wall of acronyms — LCP, INP, CLS, TTFB, FCP, TBT — and a red score. This is what each one measures, when in the page load it happens, what the thresholds are, and which are actual ranking signals versus diagnostic aids.https://stackharden.com/guides/faster-website-free/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/faster-website-free/Every 'speed up your website' guide ends with a product pitch — a premium CDN, a caching plugin, a monitoring SaaS. This one doesn't. Ten steps of free, standards-based fixes that move Core Web Vitals, plus a bonus round on blocking the bad traffic that slows the server down in the first place.https://stackharden.com/guides/nginx-tls-2026/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/nginx-tls-2026/A modern, audit-friendly Nginx TLS configuration for 2026 — TLS 1.2/1.3 only, OCSP stapling, HSTS, and the gotchas that bite in production.https://stackharden.com/scripts/tls-audit/Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/scripts/tls-audit/A read-only TLS posture audit. Reports on protocol support, certificate validity, OCSP stapling, HSTS, and security headers against the Nginx TLS 2026 baseline — exit codes suitable for CI / cron.https://stackharden.com/guides/blocking-countries-from-websites/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/blocking-countries-from-websites/A marketer asked me the simple version — 'can't you just add something to .htaccess?'. The right answer depends on your stack. Two practical implementations, with the pitfalls that catch operators out.https://stackharden.com/guides/nginx-ratelimit/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/nginx-ratelimit/Nginx rate limiting that actually protects authentication endpoints, signup flows, and expensive APIs — without locking out legitimate traffic. With sensible defaults and the patterns that cause more harm than good.https://stackharden.com/guides/cloudflare-pages-github-deploy/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackharden.com/guides/cloudflare-pages-github-deploy/A practical walkthrough for connecting a GitHub repo to Cloudflare Pages: build config, environment variables, custom domains, preview deployments, and the gotchas that bite first-timers.