As web development evolves, ensuring cross-browser compatibility remains a critical challenge for developers. Each browser renders web content differently due to the distinct rendering engines they use. For instance, Firefox utilizes Gecko, Internet Explorer (IE) uses Trident, and browsers like Safari and Google Chrome rely on Webkit. Understanding these engines is essential to address the […]

Web heatmaps are used to show which areas of a website are most frequently scanned by visitors. Heatmaps let you visualize the stream of visitors, showing hot and cold click zones. They provide an overall view of activity and help you see every mouse movement and every click. Using these tools can help you improve […]

First released in 2001, Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal is used as a back-end framework for at least 5.1% of all Web sites worldwide, putting it in 3rd place behind WordPress and Joomla. The various uses for Drupal range from […]

The explosive growth of the internet over the last twenty years and the democratization of knowledge and information has led to a revolution in the way that technology is implemented and consumed. The last 7 years in particular has witnessed a real revolution in the areas of mobile, cloud, collaboration, and information technologies and given […]

Website Performance: PHP and similar articles list many PHP performance tips, but lists of tips sometimes contain spurious advice, or at least advice of minimal value. We really must measure the effectiveness of a tip in our own production environment before judging its worth. Test Harness for PHP offers us a simple little PHP program that […]

MySQL Benchmarking is a useful branch of database performance optimization. This article expects the readers to have a basic understanding of relational database systems like MySQL and administrative use of Linux. So why should database administrators run benchmark tests on their MySQL systems? The answer is simply to see if the designed system is able […]

A few days ago, I gave you my JavaScript test harness. I created it so I could evaluate some of the performance options that were listed in Website Performance: JavaScript. As promised, here is the same test harness ported over to PHP. [I hope you don’t laugh at me when I tell you I spent […]

Most people and businesses pay attention to what they think are a few important features when picking a web-hosting service. First there’s price, which, more than ever, seems a major consideration these days. Another consideration are features that the service provides, for example, data storage and bandwidth capacity. Businesses also want the comfort of support […]