Google recently confirmed that site speed will be used in search ranking. Google have been monitoring site speed through Google Toolbar for past many months. If you are interested to see site speed for your site you can find in Google Webmaster Tool. You can find more details on following links http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/site-speed/
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently found an interesting tool from Google “Page Speed” for FireFox, similar to yahoo’s YSlow. Page Speed is installed with firebug extension. The tool is very useful for analyzing the performance of any page. It gives suggestions in different categories to improve page load time. The suggestion include compression, browser cache, serving from cookie less [...]
For last few days worked on performance optimization of CRE Loaded site. Now all major performance measuring tools Yahoo YSlow, Google Page Speed and WebPageTest.org are rating the site as A grade site. I have been studying and applying performance guidelines for a while. Recent addition of Site Performance stats in Google Webmaster Tools have [...]
Web servers log a lot of information regarding request served. These logs can be used extract a lot of information about your site. For example which images are requested most, which pages are famous etc etc. As these logs are in text format so its very difficult to get any meaningful information manually. I have [...]
Google have added its site performance tool under Webmaster Tools. The tool is available under “Labs” menu, so it means its still in testing mode. See the image below The tool includes a graph of average page loads time. The stats shown are collected from visitors who use Google tool bar with PageRank option enabled. [...]
When optimizing web performance, most consideration is given to reduce number and file size of images, CSS and JS etc., and less consideration is given to size of HTML being sent to browser, called “document size”. Optimizing document size can be very beneficial. There are two ways you can reduce the document size Reduce HTML [...]