50 Tips to Speed Up Your Website
The folks at InsideCRM created a nice compilation of tips to speed up your website, titled The Webmaster’s Turbo Kit.
There are all sorts of tips and tools included, from reducing the number of HTTP requests to compressing images and playing with caches. Here are six articles that I wrote on the topic some time ago (they were included on the list):
- Speed Up Your Site: Optimize Images
- Speed Up Your Site: Image Formats
- Speed Up Your Site: Optimize your CSS
- Speed Up Your Site: Use a slash on your links
- Speed Up Your Site: Use the height and width tags
- Speed Up Your Site: Reduce the HTTP Requests
Remember though, the first step towards a fast website is actually the hosting company that you choose.
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50 Tips to Speed Up Your Website
The folks at InsideCRM created a nice compilation of tips to speed up your website, titled The Webmaster’s Turbo Kit.
There are all sorts of tips and tools included, from reducing the number of HTTP requests to compressing images and playing with caches. Here are six articles that I wrote on the topic some time ago (they were included on the list):
- Speed Up Your Site: Optimize Images
- Speed Up Your Site: Image Formats
- Speed Up Your Site: Optimize your CSS
- Speed Up Your Site: Use a slash on your links
- Speed Up Your Site: Use the height and width tags
- Speed Up Your Site: Reduce the HTTP Requests
Remember though, the first step towards a fast website is actually the hosting company that you choose.
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Let’s Follow Each Other on Twitter, Shall We?
After reading about it virtually on every single website on the web, a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Twitter a try. I must say that, contrary to what many people claim to, I did not get addicted to it.
It is certainly a useful and interesting application for some purposes, but so far I am using it with moderation. I log a couple of times during the day to check what other people are tweeting about. Once in a while I also post replies, links or ask questions.
I still don’t get some messages that people write, like: “Hello everyone, how are you doing?” or “Going to bed now, see ya.’
That being said usually there are some interesting thoughts floating around, and cool links as well. I’ve read somewhere that Twitter is a middle ground between blogs and instant messaging, and I think that the definition is not that off the mark.
Another point that I like about Twitter is the fact that it enables you to connect with virtually anyone else that is using the service. It is a pretty democratic environment (another day I exchanged messages with Guy Kawasaki, for instance).
Anyway, as the time passes I will try to get more active there. If you want to follow me here is my profile. If you are using Twitter make sure to leave your profile on the comments section as well, I will be glad to follow you and I am sure that other readers will too.
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Zemanta: Content Suggestion Engine For Bloggers
What if your WordPress text editor could analyze the article that you are writing and provide suggestions of images, tags, related articles and content?
That is what the guys from Zemanta are trying to do. The software work as a Firefox plugin, and it supports the most popular blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger and Typepad so far). It is easier to show than to describe it with words, so check the video below.
Here is some more information from their FAQ:
Where do you get images from?
They are suggested from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers (currently Shutterstock and Fotolia). They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image’s title, description and articles they were used in originally.
Where do related articles come from?
We index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of our users.
Why do most of the links point to Wikipedia?
Placing semantically smart links is a hard problem. We decided to give you this tool and let you help us shape the future development. We will be suggesting links to many more sources in the future. Let us know what your expectations are.
Do you care about copyright at all?
Yes, very much. All content that we are suggesting is copyright cleared - either clearly licenced as Creative Commons, or approved by stock providers.
Can you link to my own pictures and posts? Can you link to my friends?
Expect that in near future! Along with the preferences page where you will be able to set it up.
Finally, keep in mind that the application is under development yet, and some users are reporting bugs here and there. Still it should be interested to see the potential of this idea unfolding.
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Yahoo! Buzz Could be the Digg Killer?
The social bookmarking scene is marked by the entrance of new players that aim to revolutionize the segment, but that at the same time fail to deliver on the most important factor: traffic.
That is why Digg is still considered the king of hill: no other social bookmarking or news aggregating tool can rival its traffic (StumbleUpon is getting closer, but with a different approach).
It looks like Yahoo! might finally be able to challenge Digg, though. TechCrunch recently published a post revealing the initial traffic details of Yahoo! Buzz. Salon.com reported over one million visitors to a story that was featured on the front page of Buzz. Confirming that number The Huffington Post claimed that they received around 800,000 visitors from the site as well.
That is a heck lot of traffic.
One point to note: Yahoo! Buzz is still in closed beta, and as a result only a selected number of popular websites are currently getting featured there (which could also mean a strong bias towards mainstream sites and blogs).
Another difference from other social bookmarking sites is that the algorithm that determines what stories get featured on the front page counts not only votes from the users, but also the popularity of related search terms and the number of times that the story has being emailed around.
Finally, I think that that the project has potential, but they will need to create a community around it, and to make the overall system somewhat democratic. Digg has its flaws, but it also has the most democratic core concept around: even a newly created blog could get on the front page if users were to consider its content worth.
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