Tag: sitevitals

The Platform Illusion: Why Managed Hosting Isn’t the Same as a Managed Site

There’s an appealing pitch that comes with hosted platforms like Shopify, Squarespace, and Webflow. The servers are managed. The uptime is “99.9%.” Security patches happen automatically. The message, implicit or otherwise, is that the hard stuff is taken care of. It’s a tempting thought – but it’s only half the story. The platform handling your […]

Securing Cookies in 2026: Dealing with CHIPS and the End of Third-Party State

Following on from the header updates, I’ve also had to refactor the Cookie Scanner. With the final nail in the coffin for unpartitioned third-party cookies in 2026, the way we audit cookies had to change. If you’re running embedded widgets—like support chats, maps, or auth providers—that rely on cross-site state, the old way of doing […]

Analysing Web Performance: A Look at the Wix Showcase Sites

This is the first in a series of articles I plan to write, based on our research at Sitevitals into platform-specific site health. In this first article i want to look at Wix websites and how they stack up, performance wise. Rather than pick any old random Wix websites, we audited of the 85 websites […]

Turn Your Client Portfolio Into a Continuous Opportunity Engine

We know the reality most agencies face: websites don’t usually break all at once; they quietly drift over time. An SSL certificate expires unnoticed. A script update slows down the Largest Contentful Paint. A critical tracking tag is accidentally deleted. A security header is dropped during a routine deployment. Individually, these issues are small. Collectively, […]

Securing the Web in 2026: Why I’ve Upgraded the SiteVitals Header Scanner

I recently spent some time digging into the latest security standards for 2026, and as usual, things have moved on quite a bit from what was considered “best practice” just a couple of years ago. It turns out that simply having a CSP or HSTS header isn’t quite enough anymore if you want to stay […]

Measuring website traffic from a specific source

How can you know where your visitors are coming from? How to set up UTM tags and then check traffic sources in GA4.

How to find out where your domain is registered

It's essential to know where your domain is registered so that in an emergency you can quickly and easily log in to change the settings.