loading speed

Firstly, a disclaimer: I am the biggest fan of improving server response time you will ever find. That being said, in no way am I a fan of cherry-picking trendy metrics or phrases when it comes to website performance, as ultimately everything is related. From DNS, to RAM memory, to SSL certificates, to a website’s […]

As with pretty much every buzzword and digital marketing trend, the concept of TTFB has proven to maintain lasting controversy within the so-called SEO community as hundreds of bloggers and developers continue to bring it up on discussion forums, in comment threads, at marketing conferences, and in other venues for several years on end. TTFB, […]

By now, a large number of webmasters across the planet have heard of CloudFlare — a Silicon Valley SaaS with serious funding – although the vast majority still don’t seem to understand it very well. The truth is that since it first launched, CloudFlare has evolved rapidly as far as the various services and technologies […]

After spending time in Southeast Asia, I came across many clients and companies involved in the tourism industry. One of the most common “issues” I saw was the peculiar attraction to embedding “weather” widgets into their homepage. Since the early years of web design, “weather” widgets have existed. When the first generations of personal homepages […]

When Juliette Sawyer, a professional photographer based in Doha, Qatar approached me earlier this year, she was looking to improve two specific issues: firstly, her web hosting at GoDaddy was under-performing to the point that when visitors from Qatar loaded her homepage, they couldn’t even view her online photographs at times; secondly, despite her growing […]

In late 2014, Google announced that websites with SSL support (encryption) would begin receiving a boost in their search results in certain instances. Despite their insistence that less than 1% of global searches would be effected, the announcement resulted in a mad rush for SSL certificates the world over. And while certain “guru” bloggers tried […]

The question is becoming more common: what does the “managed” in “managed web hosting” actually mean? Interestingly, the answer often varies greatly, depending on the web hosting company that happens to be using the term. However, there is a strong chance that if you are reading this, you’ve used some type of “managed” hosting in […]

For the past 3 to 4 months, I’ve been running an experiment on the largest freelancing website in the world, oDesk, focused entirely on one thing: website loading speed. Specifically, I sought out clients who were in the market for website migrations, security improvements, SSL certificates, and on-site optimization services, and offered them the following […]