7 free SEO tools to analyze and optimize your website for speed and compatibility
Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 10 Comments
When you first started blogging, you probably used to spend a lot of time refining the design and making sure your site loaded quickly. You basically made sure that is was technically sound and working well for your visitors. However, after some time, your concentration may have shifted to other important tasks such as writing good content, marketing your blog, commenting on other blogs, writing guest posts, etc.
How to find out who hosts a web site (web hosting company)
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 11 Comments
Here’s a quick little tip for anyone looking for a simple way to find out who is hosting a particular website. Trying to figure out who hosts a web site can be an annoying task if you’re trying to go through the usual channels by searching the WHOIS database, etc. A lot of times you’ll only get the company that registered the domain name, but not the actual hosting company.
How to design and create your own custom logo for free
Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 6 Comments
There are many free logo designs available on the Internet for your web site or company, but most of the time creating and designing your own logo makes the most sense and gives it a truly unique touch. However, designing a logo yourself can be a laborious task and too technical if you don’t have the right tools and skills.
Analyze web site traffic and statistics from search engines
Posted on August 24, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
If you’ve ever looked, there are literally hundreds of web sites out there that you can use to monitor and analyze traffic to your web site or blog, but some are definitely better than other. Google Analytics is by far the most popular with tons of statistics, graphs, charts, and maps. Using Analytics, you can see the average time spent on the site, most popular pages, traffic sources, geographic location of visitors, and most popular keywords.
How I increased by blog’s load speed by 50% using YSlow
Posted on August 10, 2007 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 5 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:
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.
