PJAX is a jQuery extension that combines AJAX requests to HTML5 pushState. What this means is an AJAX website with a working back button. Think Twitter without ugly hash bangs (#!) in the URL**. What AJAX, and by extension PJAX, does is allow for partial page reloads. The result is a much faster page load […]
Sometimes, as an SEO, you need to analyze a site before working on it. Many sites today load content and links after the page has loaded. This content is loaded asynchronously via a Javascript method know as AJAX. To get started, you need two things: The phantomjs binary and a download of the latest version […]
Python has a built in library for making HTTP requests. Well, it has two of them actually: urllib and urllib2. Unfortunately, both of them are not ideal. The API is thoroughly broken, and certain things are extremely hard. Enter requests a fantastic third party python library. You can install it by typing pip install requests […]