Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article reviews the tips in the third category, the-server-processes-the-request. Server-side scripting and services accessed by it (e.g., databases) will be reviewed in future articles. Today we look at the web server and its […]

Let’s face it. Not all of us can be hardcore programmers who have mastered every programming language. As a matter of fact, it is very likely that very few people can actually boast of such an accomplishment. The reason behind this is quite simple; there are so many strange and mostly unknown programming languages out […]

Everyday we hear the stories and see the headlines about another online service being hacked, cracked and robbed of our precious credentials. The cyber thieves seem to be everywhere, just lurking for a weak moment to pounce and make our lives a miserable mess. This past Christmas season we all saw the articles describing the […]

When we were covering best blogging platforms for your business, one of the advantages of  Wordpress we mentioned  wass that it has a big developer community which results in a  variety of tools and plugins designed for the platform. There’s no doubt that WordPress’s content is its most valuable asset. However, there are some steps you can […]

With the arrival of CSS3, HTML5 and legitimate web font standards, we are quite privileged to have the ability to use gorgeous fonts on our web sites. This means, we don’t have to rely on the boring old Georgia, Arial or others to decorate our typography. Today, we will see how we can use a […]

These simple truths: provide performance hints for web applications. One such hint is that we should store components on the local hard disk rather than retrieving them from a server. Today we’re going to have some fun! We’re going to take that hint and combine it with memorization, a concept that’s been around since the […]

There are many factors which affect Website availability and performance from end user perspective, namely ISP Internet connection, server location, server parameters, programming language, application architecture and implementation. One of the critical parameters is a selected Operational System (OS). Most users often need to select between Linux and Windows, two popular choices for web servers. […]

The trends continue to prove that the future is definitely mobile. PC sales continue to decline while sales of mobile devices are increasing globally, and the number of mobile devices accessing the internet continues to skyrocket. In fact, August 2014 was the first time in history that more people used mobile devices to visit online […]