Website Performance — page 2

Whether or not your website is popular, it is important to regularly analyze your site in terms of its performance to gauge how well it meets the needs of its visitors. This category contains articles related to website traffic patterns, conversions, and other performance metrics.

Is Alexa a True Measure of Success?

Alexa is one of the most popular website ranking statistics. But how accurate is it?

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25 Ways To Improve Your Website

There are always ways to improve a website. Below, we’ve included a list of 25 ways that you might be able to improve yours.

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Why You NEED To Update Your CMS Software

Those of us who use, create, or manage websites with content management systems are sometimes annoyed when new versions are released because of the pesky upgrade messages and the implied need to update. And while you might ignore these messages, it is very important to upgrade for the added security and efficiency that a new version may give you.

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How To Minimize Bandwidth Usage

If you have a large, high traffic website, you might have noticed that you are either nearing or exceeding the bandwidth allotment of your hosting plan. To avoid any costly overage fees or downtime, we provide some tips for optimizing your website.

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How To Compress Your Pages With GZIP And PHP

Recently, we wrote an article which outlined several methods to speed up a websites. One item, in particular, was the use of GZIP compression to speed up the delivery of web pages. Most people, however, hadn’t heard of GZIP, so we were contacted for methods to add it to websites.

In this article, we show how to use GZIP with PHP on a Linux Apache web server.

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32 Ways To Speed Up Your Website

Slow-loading websites are one of the main reasons that visitors may leave a site. In this article, we list 32 ways you can speed up your website.

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PHP vs. ASP – Which Is Best For Your Application?

PHP and ASP are the two most popular means for building web applications. Many people believe that these two programming languages could be used interchangeably. And while they are each capable of building applications with the same functionality, there are some noteworthy differences between the two.

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Is Your Website Doing Its Job?

In this sputtering economy, it has become more important than ever to find effective ways to generate leads for your business. A website can do just. And given the relatively low costs to build and maintain a website, there is no reason why your business should not have one.

However, beware of creating just any web presence. To actually benefit your business, your website needs to be well made. Otherwise, it could do more harm than good.

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