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21 Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate on Your Website

When it comes to running a successful website you should always be looking at all the data. A very important factor that a lot of website owners, developers, and marketers overlook is their bounce rate. If you have a high bounce rate than most likely there is a cause for that such as your website is slow, it has bad navigation, HTTPS mixed-content warnings, unusable on mobile, etc. which are causing visitors to leave your website.

March 8, 2016 Read more

Diving into Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

If you're a website owner, you know how important it is to have a fast-loading website. Not only does it improve the user experience, but it also helps with search engine optimization (SEO). With the growing usage of mobile devices to browse the web, it's even more crucial to have a mobile-optimized website that loads quickly. This is where Google's Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) comes in. AMP is an open-source framework that helps websites load faster on mobile devices.

March 1, 2016 Read more

Diagnosing admin-ajax.php Slow Responses in WordPress

With each CMS platform comes its own unique issues that you have to troubleshoot and deal with as a web developer or business owner. While WordPress might be the most widely used CMS, with hundreds of thousands of plugins and themes available, this also can result in it being one of the trickiest to optimize correctly as there are so many different variables that could be introducing delays. If you have ever run a website speed test on your WordPress site, then you have probably encountered references to admin-ajax.

February 23, 2016 Read more

18 Tips for Website Performance Optimization

Website performance optimization is always something that should be top priority, especially when there is so much online competition. We have written a lot of performance tutorials over the past couple months, such as how to speed up WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and more. But what if you aren't on any of those platforms? Below are the top 18 optimization tips we recommend, regardless of the platform, if you are looking to optimize your site.

January 19, 2016 Read more

Web Performance: 25+ Experts Share Their Advice and Mistakes

We had a lot of great feedback from the community on our previous post, web performance experts to follow online. We thought we would take it a step further and ask those experts to share their advice and common mistakes that they see people making when it comes to web performance and which optimizations you should spend time prioritizing. Web performance questions We asked each expert to answer the following two questions.

January 14, 2016 Read more

Website Latency with and Without a Content Delivery Network

When it comes serving up your content around the globe in a fast and efficient manner, website latency becomes very important. We will never be able to get past the fact that there is physical distance involved which causes round trip time delays. However, you can dramatically decrease the latency by implementing a content delivery network (CDN). 50% of your 1-second page load time budget on mobile is taken up by network latency overhead.

January 5, 2016 Read more

Analyzing HTTPS Performance Overhead

In this post we want to analyze HTTPS performance overhead and hopefully clear up some doubts that you may have had in the past. With best practices in place like early termination, Cache-Control and HTTP/2, factors such as the latency of the TLS handshake and additional roundtrips start becoming things of the past. Newer protocols, better hardware, and faster connections have started making up for these delays. Costs and overhead when switching to HTTPS There is always going to be some https performance overhead and possibly costs when switching to HTTPS, but the question is with today's hardware, connectivity, and new HTTP/2 protocol, is the overhead and or cost even a factor worth considering anymore?

December 17, 2015 Read more

50+ Web Performance Experts to Follow Online

Web performance is very important to us here at KeyCDN; and is what we live and breath on a daily basis. It is crucial to stay up to date with what is happening in the industry around you and so we compiled this list of 50+ web performance experts. 50+ web performance experts To create this list we used things such as impact on the industry, frequency of activity on their blog/third party sites, length of experience and other factors.

December 8, 2015 Read more

How to Effectively Monitor and Scale for Website Traffic

Scaling when it pertains to web performance essentially means the ability to support any traffic load. Unfortunately most business owners don't think about this until their website goes down due to heavy traffic. That is why it is very important to plan for scaling and try to anticipate your peak load in advance with performance tools such as real user monitoring, server monitoring, and load testing. Once you know where your load is at you can put measures in place to avoid downtime and frustrated visitors down the road.

December 3, 2015 Read more

10 Tips to Speed up Joomla Performance

Joomla is a free and popular open source content management system (CMS), built on a MVC framework, and used by at least 2.6% of all the websites on the internet. It is used by corporations, online magazines, government applications, small businesses, and all different types of websites. In this post, we will discuss tips on how to speed up Joomla performance to ensure your website keeps running fast, ensuring a good experience for your visitors.

December 1, 2015 Read more

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