How I increased by blog’s load speed by 50% using YSlow
Posted on August 10, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 3 Comments
YSlow is a great site performance tuning tool that every blogger and site owner should use! Using YSlow, I was able to have my WordPress blog load almost twice as fast as before by changing a few simple things. WordPress may not have the most optimized code in the world, but most blogs are running slow because of their own lack of understanding of what it takes to make a web site load quickly.
The Simple Stuff
Interestingly enough, I was able to see a 25% improvement in load time by doing the following things:
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Read More..>>ClickTale - Web Analytics via recorded video sessions
Posted on August 6, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
ClickTale is a new web analytics tool released to the public today that records video of users sessions once they visit your site. Simply put, once installed, ClickTale will record every action of a visitor as they browse your site, including where they move their mouse, where they click, and how far they scroll down. That’s cool, but watching hundreds of individual videos would be cumbersome and not completely accurate, so ClickTale automatically generates reports that aggregates the thousands of visitor sessions to easily find trends, increase web site usability, or correct navigational issues.
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Read More..>>Use YSlow Firefox add-on to analyze the performance of your web site
Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
YSlow is a FireFox add-on from Yahoo that you can use to help analyze the performance of your web site and determine why your web pages are slow to load based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow integrates with Firebug Firefox web development add-on, so you’ll need to install that first.
YSlow will generate an overall performance scorecard for your page, a complete HTML/HTTP summary, a list of components on the page, and other cool tools like JSLint. There are 13 rules for high performance web sites:
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Read More..>>Use a CAPTCHA to prevent comment spam or to hide an email address and help digitize books at the same time
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 4 Comments
Now these days, just about every large web site has a CAPTCHA program, crazy and colorful distorted text images that appear at the bottom of registration pages or signup forms. These CAPTCHA’s are used to prevent “bots” from being able to sign up automatically since it is still impossible for computer programs to be able to read distorted text, but quite easy for the human brain to do so.
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Read More..>>Stock up on free photos with a list of free stock photo sites
Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
DazzlinDonna has wrote up a nice post on 10 sites that you can use to find free stock photos for your web site, newsletters, or whatever else you may desire. It’s a nice list, but make sure that you read the terms before you start slapping them up on your site as some require a link back or a mention.
Here’s the list of sites compiled by Donna for free stock pictures:
1. Yotophoto
2. Image*After
3. Photogen
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Read More..>>Free Computer/Website Icons and Free Business Logos
Posted on July 12, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 5 Comments
Thankfully, there are many gracious people on this earth who have created thousands of high quality Web 2.0 icons and vector-based business logos so that essentially you really can start your own business and brand yourself in a matter of minutes. In this post, I’m going to go through a few web sites that I have found over time that I have used personally and that I feel are the best.
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