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7 Tips To Improve Web Page Load Time

By Peter Gilg on
improve web page load time

With the increasing focus on Google’s Site Speed Algorithm, the following are 7 tips to improve web page load time, proven techniques well known websites use to boost their site speed.

Enable Gzip Compression

While compressing pages adds just a tad to your web server’s overhead, it will reduce bandwidth and transmission time and make pages appear to load faster for your users. Gzip is a open source compression algorithm that can be used to compress the content of your website before ...

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Listed in SEO, Web Development

Tags: cdn, gzip, minify, redirect, sprite

Best New Chrome Extensions For Developers

By Peter Gilg on
chrome extensions developers

With increasing popularity in Google’s Chrome browser, so increases the demand for extensions. This is especially true for Developers, as we are used to such a nice variety of high quality tools in Firefox. And the more tools are available on one browser, the more that browser is used in developing web sites, resulting in higher quality web experience for end users on that platform. Btw., did you know that Google Chrome surpasses Safari in US browser market (macstories.net)? The ...

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Listed in Linux, SEO, Web Development

Tags: chrome, extension

What’s new in Google’s Caffeine Search update

By Peter Gilg on
what's new in google caffeine

Google’s search algorithm update, codenamed “Google Caffeine” in set to launch in the coming days, so we wonder what’s new in Google Caffeine. Google Caffeine is said to stir up the Webmaster / SEO world with a slew of algorithm updates. Most predominantly, it will be much quicker than the current Google search and rely more on keyword strings in the page content, and it will make real-time search much more important.

The new focus on real-time search results means that ...

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Listed in SEO, Web Development

Tags: caffeine, google, SEO, webmaster

Nginx and memcached module

By Peter Gilg on
nginx memcache

Memcache is traditionally used as a module inside server side scripts, such as PHP, ASP, ColdFusion and others. And it’s doing a terrific job, as long as it’s implemented correctly.

But if we look under the hood of the actual Memcache application, and I’m not talking about the PHP or ASP extension, but rather the executable that’s running as a daemon under Linux, it is a rather simple, database like application running in memory. Now there are two basic actions that ...

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Listed in Linux, MySQL, SEO, Shell Scripting, Useful Stuff, Web Development

Tags: apache, memcache, nginx, php

How to Improve Website Traffic

By Peter Gilg on
improve website traffic

There are several ways to generate and improve website traffic for your site. Some of them are rather simple and easy to do, others take a bit more effort and there are a few thing you really want to avoid.

But as a general rule of thumb, create content that you would like to ready and engage with yourself, and you’re far ahead. Then go thru the list of steps to improve website traffic below and you should see some improvement.

1. ...

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Listed in SEO

Tags: google, keywords, search, SEO, traffic, web site

Useful tips about SEO for images

By Peter Gilg on
seo for images

Images are often ignored when it comes to SEO, despite the fact that every major search engine has it’s own search domain for images. Paying a little more attention to naming scheme and additional tags inside the image tag can make a big difference in SEO for images, and therefore search referred traffic.

Handling images when writing articles for your site should be as carefully considered as the content itself. After all, and image is a users first point of view, ...

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Listed in SEO

Tags: google, search, SEO, traffic