Always Specify a Content Type


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Applicable To
All Browsers

How Improves Page Load Time
By optimizing browser rendering

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Why
o        Before browser can begin to check for a character set, they must first find the content type of the document being processed.  If it is not specified, browser tries to identify using various algorithms, which adds an overhead of extra processing time
o        To avoid any security vulnerability

How
o        Configure web server to specify the content type in the HTTP headers
o        If configuring of web server is not possible, then set the content type in the meta tag and specify the markup in the section of the HTML document

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