The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has released a proposal for public comment. It proposes that all publicly accessible federal sites must require the use of HTTPS.

A high level look at some of the concepts surrounding HTTP/2.

“Optimizing your website’s performance is not a one time event, but rather a seamless, repeatable, and non-disruptive process that the web team implements for applying performance optimizations.” Such a process has three phases, as outlined here.

Performance metrics, error logging, release tracking and mobile alerts in one killer tool. When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. WebOps Weekly readers get $100 credit.

A look at the history, design and implementation (and ‘why’) of the new httpd recently created for OpenBSD out of frustrations with nginx.

A large dose of handy tips if you’re including many third party scripts into a page.

A slidedeck looking at the various image formats you can use on the Web, their pros and cons, and performance considerations.

Sure, it’s a slidedeck, and it’s a little abstract (away from the talk itself) but there are ideas to take away from the slides nonetheless.

W3C and the Web Application Security Working Group invite implementation of “Mixed Content,” a specification that aims to improve web security by describing how a user agent should handle fetching of content loaded in a mixed security context.