7 Biggest Web Development Challenges You Can’t Ignore in 2022_2.pdf
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This document outlines several common challenges that web developers face, including browser compatibility, user experience, performance and speed, scaling websites, security, third-party integrations, and maintenance and support. It discusses specific issues under each challenge such as cross-browser compatibility errors, enhancing the user experience through design, measuring performance with tools from Google and others, problems that arise from scaling like search, concurrency, and consistency issues, various security vulnerabilities, technology differences with third-party integrations, and preventing downtime and bugs during maintenance. The document concludes that while these are common challenges, every business has unique requirements that lead to their own specific challenges as well.
7 Biggest Web Development Challenges You Can’t Ignore in 2022_2.pdf
- 1. Biggest Web Development Challenges You Shouldn’t Ignore
- 2. Challenges of Web Development Browser Compatibility User Experience Performance & Speed Scaling Websites Security Third-party Integrations Maintenance & Support 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
- 3. Browser compatibility Browser and platform compatibility are typically one of the biggest challenges for web developers. One of the most famous examples of legacy browsers being a nightmare for web development is Internet Explorer. Doctype error: HTML/CSS validation: Layout difference: Common errors of browsers:
- 4. User experience Another significant challenge is to create a user-centric design that can enhance user experience. Lack of context in a website’s UX design is one of the most critical challenges that web development companies face. Consider all the internal or external factors that impact a user while designing the interface.
- 5. Performance & speed Achieving maximum loading speed is a crucial challenge for any web development company. Uptrends Sematext Google’s Web.Dev GTmetrix Uptime Dareboost Different tools that you can use to measure website performance: Google has defined some of the critical metrics, also known as the core web vitals, that helps in measuring website performance.
- 6. Scaling websites Scaling websites is about sustainable performance, whether it’s 10 users per minute or 100 visitors per minute. Search problem Concurrency problem Consistency problem Speed problem Giants like Facebook, Quora, and Uber, every web app runs into four major problems scaling such as,
- 7. Security Securing your website is exhausting with several vulnerabilities to counter Another website vulnerability comes from broken authentications. Broken Access Control Cryptographic failures Injection and Security misconfiguration Vulnerable and outdated components Identification and authentication failure Software and data integrity failures Security logging and monitoring failures Server-side request forgery This is a list of security flaws mentioned by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP):
- 8. Third-party integrations The challenge is to integrate them securely with customizations according to your website. In the case of outdated APIs, they immediately become a threat serving as a loophole to unforeseen issues. There are technology differences between the third-party service providers and your website architecture.
- 9. Maintenance & support Several issues like unresponsive web pages, security issues, low loading speeds, and performance problems occur after the launch. Ensuring zero downtime is difficult during the maintenance of the website. During this process, different dependencies among functions can lead to downtime.
- 10. Concluding Web development is a broad industry, and it is not restricted only to websites but encompasses the development of web applications and other web services as well. Similarly, web development challenges are also not limited to scalability, security, UX designs, performance, speed, integrations, and maintenance. Every business has specific requirements that lead to unique challenges.
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