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Making Your Category Grow: Optimization Tests with Impact
We believe that the more we test, the better: A/B testing allows us to see exactly how a redesign or optimization improves page performance and then lets us quickly roll out changes so your site benefits. Our development team uses a variety of tools to test potential...
How Legacy Supports Your Readers
The death of a loved one, a terminal diagnosis: these can be the most difficult issues anyone will ever face. But your readers are not alone. Legacy offers advice from leading experts, helpful end-of-life information, and grief support groups to help our visitors cope...
Send Your Readers Emails That Matter
At Legacy, we spend a lot of time getting to know who is visiting our site and how we can best serve them. Our research shows us that we have two core audience types on our site: “browsers” and “mourners.” Browsers are users who check recent obituaries on a regular...
Site Update: Update to TLS 1.2
PCI Data Security Standards require that all sites update to TLS 1.2 before July 2018. In preparation for this requirement, Legacy.com will disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, and will upgrade all sites to TLS 1.2 on June 28, 2018. What is TLS? SSL/TLS is a cryptographic...
Site Update: Converting to Secure Pages
In July, Google Chrome began alerting visitors of non-secure pages (see below image). In order to provide the best user experience and to ensure that revenue and traffic are not impacted, we're transitioning all sites from HTTP to HTTPS. Why is Legacy going secure?...
Site Update: Becoming GDPR Compliant
Legacy.com is making modifications in support of GDPR compliance for audiences visiting from Europe & the United Kingdom. What is GDPR? General Data Production Regulation requires businesses protect personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that...