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IE 9 recently pushed through Windows Update. I installed IE 9 on one of my laptops on 3rd May 2011.
Initially IE 9 was only available through download. FireFox 4 already left IE 9 behind in usage stats, now its time for IE 9 to catchup with FireFox 4.

For website owners it is recommended that they install IE 9 and test their websites compatibility and performance with IE 9, because its usage is expected to get a spike as its being rolled out to different regions.

Stats already showing increasing usage of IE 9 in Europe, but still its way behind FF4. In Europe FF is still managing to be at top in usage.

In default Magento installation, admin area is particularly slow. The reason for this is that admin area can’t use much cache and more database operations. After adding products it becomes even slower. Modifying or adding a new products becomes very slow. Read the rest of this entry »

Another good idea to have an optimized css architecture is to avoid hard coding css classes into elements. This allow easy migration to a new theme and reduce code size in document.
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FireFox is new number one browser in Europe now. This is very significant event marking end of Internet Explorer dominance in web browsers. If major audience of your web site is from Europe it is recommended that you test your site in FireFox for any errors in display. Read the rest of this entry »

There are two ways a CSS style can be applied to a HTML element. One is to apply style by defining it in css file or <style> block. Second one is to provide style definition directly into “style” tag of an element, called inline style definition. Read the rest of this entry »

I just read a nice post about SEO trends since 1999 to 2011. The post is from SEOMoz’s founder “Randfish”.

The presentation gives over view of major SEO techniques and twist in way SEO is done. Important topics explained in presentation are Read the rest of this entry »

Today I tried to upgrade Internet Explorer (IE) version to latest IE9. The experience of upgrading was very bad, for the following reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

Google recently announced that they are rolling out a “big” algorithm change to filter out spam and low quality web sites. Big shuffle in a lot of ranking is expected, for sites using content from other sites, spam sites, sites setup for Google adsens specially. If you are using genuine content written by you or your users, you should not have much to worry about it. I think this is a good change to encourage genuine content and clean seo techniques.

To be a success “best code” is not always required. Specially PHP is a very different language, it enables us to get things done, by allowing free style programming, a huge bunch of useful functions, and a lot of open source libraries. Every developer can choose his way of doing things, which is most of the time is not the “best way”.
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Google Analytics (GA) script have become almost a must have part of a page. GA provides JavaScript code snippet to be placed on page. Today I will discuss few ways which will minimize the impact of GA on performance.

First we will see how GA script impacts the performance.

1. External Script: Means it will add extra HTTP call and DNS resolution.
2. Its JavaScript: Placement is crucial as javascript can be a blocking call.

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