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I would always recommend running all production site cms’ using security on the transport layer (https). Sitecore or no Sitecore, it is not safe to first send username and password unencrypted and then following having an insecure session cookie for the authentication information. This applies for both extranet users and the backend administrators. A basic best practice is simply to ensure that all requests containing authentication information such as the .ASPXAUTH cookie used by ASP.NET, only gets transferred using the https scheme. ...

Pleasing Google Page Speed Minifying resources such as Javascript and CSS is becoming common practice nowadays and something which just should be done with no questions asked. The reason for minification is both to reduce the payload and to reduce the number of requests made by the browser to the server. This makes the page load faster thus more responsive. Google rewards pages with a quick load time in their search results as well which makes it one of the key points which are checked by their analysis tool called Google Page Speed ...