Tag: Website Performance
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How much does it cost to build an eCommerce website?
eCommerce is still very much trending, no two-ways about it. I am sure you will come across several posts that speak about what is eCommerce realm, why it is beneficial or why more and more businesses irrespective of their size…
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8 winning tips to hire a web development team
A web developer is responsible for building the online face for your business that allows your customers to interact with your products or service virtually. When such a high responsibility is shouldered on the developer, it is critical for the…
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How to speed up your website?
Obviously having a slow-loading website will prevent people from staying on your site. If it takes longer than 4 seconds to load a page, many people will leave. Not only will speeding up your site help with retaining visitors, but…
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Optimize NGINX for high-traffic websites
Nginx is the most famous and widely used web server application for websites today. For static websites, Nginx is no less than a boon, while for dynamic websites it serves the need of a most efficient and lightweight webserver. The…
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How to block bad bots?
Overview: What are bots? Bots are just software programs that do repetitive, predefined, and automated tasks online. Generally, bots imitate human activity online. They were invented to perform tedious and repetitive tasks online to free humans from such tasks, for…
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What is Time to First Byte (TTFB)?
Time To First Byte, TTFB, is a measurement used to indicate the responsiveness of the web servers and resources. In the web development and hosting industry, time to the first byte is used to define the initial server response time,…
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How to reduce initial server response time?
Once you test your website on benchmarking tools like — PageSpeed, GTmetrix, Pingdom, or WebPageTest; you might have encountered a red signal that says to reduce initial server response time. What is that? If you do not know what is…
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How to reduce server response times?
While optimizing a website for a greater performance we need to improve its foundation, which is server response time or time to first byte (TTFB). In an earlier article we learned about the TTFB, and we learned that the server’s…
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How to fix “Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding Header” warning?
While optimizing your website for website performance using tools (ex. GTmetrix), you’ll run into a “specify a vary: accept-encoding header” warning. What exactly does this mean? How can we fix this? In this tutorial, we’ll learn what’s the error and…
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Page speed is a ranking factor now – how to reduce page load time?
Mobile phones or smartphones have not only changed our lives, but it has also changed the way we undertake search engine optimization. SEO has freed itself from the confines of desktops and laptops and found a place inside the pockets…
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Enable hotlink protection in Nginx
Hotlinking is the biggest issue when we have limited bandwidth to serve and we all webmasters should enable hotlink protection to stay away from resource limit is reached issues. Nginx is our favorite platform and probably yours too. Here I…
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Some Powerful Ways to Improve Your Website’s Ranking in Google
The Internet has changed the ways people interact with each other, as well as humanity itself. One popular mode of communication is blogging, through which people opine on their favorite subjects and build regular readerships. If this interests you at…