Always Specify a Content Type
For viewing all tips see here Applicable To All Browsers How Improves Page Load Time By optimizing browser rendering Prologue [Detail of the technology / concept being used in the tip if required] 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 Exceptions None Recommendations None