Recently I have been working on performance optimization of a site. There are several guidelines available from Yahoo! and Google. These include techniques from optimization of CSS code to use of CDN, yes the list includes a lot. What are the top techniques which can benefit any site the most? In this post I will [...]
To make your website successful its important that its availability is 100%. Site downtime can cause serious damage in SEO and drop in sale. What can cause down time? Well there can be a lot of reasons for a site being down. This includes database server issues, web server server issues and DNS issues etc. [...]
Recently had to setup local domains for my php projects. Normally I use http://localhost/project_directory urls for normal project, but for a new project I had to setup few local domains. For existing projects I still need localhost (127.0.0.1) available along local domains like project.localhost.com. Setting up local domains and virtual hosts is easy and I [...]
You all must be aware of browser cookies. Browser cookies allows site to store small amount of data on your PC. These can be used to store visitor preferences etc. These cookies can be viewed and cleared easily. There is another feature called “Flash Cookies” or in technical terms called “Local Shared Object”. This allows [...]
To improve response time of web page to visitor, it is highly recommended that web page should be compressed with gzip. Compression reduces response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. YSlow and PageSpeed rate this as very important aspect of performance. To see how gzip compression works see my other post about [...]
Like every other eCommerce solution CRE Loaded provides a password protected admin area to manage all aspects of the site. Any unauthorized access to admin area can cause damage to site’s important data, any leakage of customer’s payment details can cause more issues and damage to site. CRE Loaded team has done good job to [...]
Recently found a bug in payment module “Credit Card UK with CVC”. I was using this module with CRE Loaded pro 6.4.0. This payment module sends middle digits of CC and CVV code in an email to admin. Due to the bug this CVV code value was missing. To fix the issue open file includes/modules/payment/cc_uk.php [...]
Visitor click recording is very effective way of knowing behavior of visitors. Its results can help improve site navigation and flow. In this post I will discuss two methods to record clicks. The two methods are Event Tracking of Google Analytics Third party click recording Event Tracking of Google Analytics Google Analytics (GA) provides a [...]