To make the conditions the best or the most favorable.
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optimize htaccess
I have two condition which are conflict
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ ...
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3answers
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Using one document for all images
I have some icons around 100x100. I typically save out each icon as a .png but I wanted to know if I included all the .pngs in one document would it be ideal and improve load time? If one document ...
0
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0answers
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Perl or PHP for web development [closed]
so, if one was developing a website and taking into consideration that it might grow, which is the better language for implementing CGI scripts? Perl or PHP?
i know PHP language itself (as opposed to ...
7
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3answers
2k views
How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?
I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live.
Is there anything I can ...
1
vote
1answer
64 views
Looking to monitor and manage SEO for multiple web sites [closed]
Can anyone suggest a web site or service which will allow me to sign up all my client web sites to manage and monitor their SEO?
I checked out DIYSEO.com that someone suggested. Any reviews on this ...
7
votes
2answers
483 views
SEO : urls : best place for the id
I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:
http://www.site.com/id/slug-title
http://www.site.com/slug-title-id
What do you think ?
3
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2answers
139 views
How to name image files in multi language site?
I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example.
What would be the proper convention to name image files?
From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name ...
2
votes
1answer
64 views
SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?
For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile "outrank" personal site consistently in Google/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and ...
3
votes
3answers
289 views
Would parallelizing downloads across hostnames improve TTFB?
I am getting very high TTFB (Time To First Byte) about 2.6 to 3 seconds, I have very high number of images on my pages.
I want to get thumbs downloaded from multiple host names like:
...
2
votes
2answers
67 views
Optimizing large scale e-commerce sites
I have a few questions regarding optimizing large scale e-commerce sites with getting indexed. Over 1 million pages.
Should you optimize images for e-stores with over 1 million product images?
...
1
vote
3answers
54 views
Server responding to request differnetly
I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact ...
1
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1answer
67 views
Vendor reliability and Privacy reputation
When observing my website stats at StatShow, I can see my internet reputation for:
Trustworthiness
Vendor reliability
Privacy
Child Safety
My site had excellent results for ...
3
votes
1answer
161 views
Force fresh content, not from the browser cache
I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ...
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3answers
84 views
Research about best way to present multiple products on one page
I am updating a webshop page.
This is a fairly simple page that displays all the products that we currently sell. The page in development is visible here ( https://www.ortho.nl/wwebshop ).
Now I was ...
6
votes
4answers
279 views
text to code ratio and SEO
I've run sites that I've developed through various online SEO checkers over the years and some of them have checked me for my text to html ratio. I remember reading about this once or twice as well. ...
3
votes
2answers
176 views
How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?
In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http://hdw.eweb4.com
Everything on that site is scraped ...
3
votes
3answers
191 views
Which social sign-in (Google, twitter, fb, etc) is most often used (if I could only choose one, which would statistically retain the most users)?
I am working with a startup which is about to do its launch in maybe 2-3 weeks. In order to see the primary features of the site, the user has to register or sign in if they have already registered. ...
1
vote
2answers
115 views
Benchmark for website speed optimization
I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization.
Speed analyzing Tools:
Google pagespeed tool
Yslow Firefox extenstion
Web Page Performance Test
...
0
votes
1answer
89 views
Adsense ads are not a good fit for my site
I run an academic network for college students to communicate at particular universities and we run Google Adsense. The site pulls in a decent amount for a side project but our CTR is horrible ...
7
votes
4answers
419 views
How to go about unused CSS issues
I am running some speedtests on a blog, and I always get complaints about unused CSS. But this is not CSS that I never use, it is just not used on that particular page.
Now I work in a structured ...
1
vote
1answer
150 views
Why I lose my page rank after 301 redirect?
As we all know Google treats sub-domains as completely separate domains so we have to fight for both, to get ranked in search results.
One of my client website was like they having example.com and ...
0
votes
0answers
71 views
What amount of PHP memory usage is reasonable for multiple WordPress sites? [closed]
It seems like I've been plagued with memory usage issues most of the time I've been blogging (7 years). I upgraded my hosting to a HostGator VPS and still seem to have issues.
I have about a dozen ...
0
votes
1answer
85 views
Redirect AFTER Initiating download
I have a question - is there any way to initiate a download and AFTER the user has confirmed the download then redirect to another site?
Is something like that possible via ASP or another language ...
2
votes
3answers
280 views
How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?
I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called ...
1
vote
2answers
85 views
Tool to analyze page loads
I have this CI app that shows an interminable loading process. I want to know what chunk of the page is causing this.
Now I am using Firebug with Google PageSpeed and YSlow. Is there something more ...
2
votes
0answers
15 views
Hosting advice for a write-heavy dynamic website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I have built a website using PHP and MySQL and now I am looking for a hosting service. I am expecting about a 1000 ...
2
votes
6answers
358 views
Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site
I added my url to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html
I added a meta tag with description and keywords
I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map
There is no any robots in my ...
5
votes
2answers
231 views
Optimizing (reducing) web font requests
My homepage currently uses 5 web fonts--I'd like it to be 6 due to spotty support for Helvetica Neue. One of the fonts is 'FontAwesome' icons, the other 4 are only used for a word or two (i.e. I have ...
1
vote
1answer
164 views
CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?
I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used.
First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an ...
0
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0answers
55 views
Affordable multivariate testing tool for technical people
I have been doing research on multivariate website optimalization tools, but can't really seem to find what I'm looking for. In essence, I am looking for a Google Website Optimizer replacements, as GA ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
How do I make my website retina display friendly?
Recently the retina MacBook Pro was released at WWDC 2012. It has a resolution of 2880 by 1800. This makes websites look really bad if they haven't been optimized for the new high-res display, as ...
1
vote
2answers
128 views
Images Loading Very Slowly
I'm currently working on optimizing my site to try to decrease load time by using Pingdom tools. I seem to be having some difficulty with long load times on images.
For example, the body background ...
0
votes
0answers
447 views
How to cache dynamic javascript/jquery/ajax/json content with Akamai
Trying to wrap my head around how things are cached on a CDN and it is new territory for me. In the document we received about sending in environment requests, it says "Dynamically-generated content ...
0
votes
1answer
35 views
SEO on an existing platform
I'm given the task to increase user visits and conversions on for a recruitment website.
Conversions would be interested job seekers submitting their CV.
The manager would first like to increase the ...
1
vote
1answer
314 views
HTML compressor/minifier
Currently I am using a system where HTML gets cached server-side before it's sent to the browser. I'm looking to compress the HTML source of my website before it is cached.
Basically I'm looking for ...
4
votes
3answers
318 views
Best practices when loading images for improving page loading speed
I am working on optimizing a page's loading speed. Here are some analytics:
Notice how the images, although only accounting for 65% of the total size (1.1MB), are by far the slowest loading ...
0
votes
2answers
84 views
Make browsers not to make HTTP requests for cached items
I know that http caching and sending 304 response is to save some bandwidth and of course some load time.
However in my web site there are about 40 css stylesheet files and 20 javascript files (don't ...
1
vote
1answer
919 views
How to make CloudFlare cache everything?
I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain,
I want it to cache it.
Is this possible?
(There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, ...
1
vote
2answers
108 views
What Does Local SEO Consist of and How Does it Differ From Website SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Local SEO Strategies
What does most local SEO services consist of? So far here's what I got:
Add company to Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local and a bunch of
other ...
3
votes
2answers
94 views
Is it ok to optimise my site for “freevideos” instead of “free videos”?
I am optimizing my website for SEO and after doing some research on google keyword tool I found out that there are a lot of searches for glued keywords with very thew competition in the search ...
1
vote
1answer
106 views
Google Analitycs says source is Search Engine (100%) [closed]
I have a problem with my google analytics code, 'cause it says since 2 months that all traffic of my websites is directly from search engine, i'm really sure that must be a mistake 'cause i have made ...
0
votes
2answers
151 views
Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank
Is it true that replacing words such as "to" and "for" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank.
Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?
1
vote
2answers
97 views
What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?
I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your ...
3
votes
1answer
293 views
Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension
In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a ...
3
votes
2answers
100 views
Form development optimization
Like many web developers I do forms all the time. I found myself doing the same all the time: placing input fields, assigning a name to each, ajax the form, then create the PHP which involves to ...
3
votes
1answer
439 views
Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?
Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed.
I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me ...
3
votes
1answer
507 views
How to enable more file formats for GZIP/Deflate Compression
I enabled gzip/Deflate compression on our servers per Google's Page Speed directives, and it looks like it's now compression html/php files, but a couple file formats aren't being compressed that ...
13
votes
5answers
992 views
What's the best way to load Javascript into a page to optimize performance?
Is there a way to load my JavaScript into a page that will make it load faster?
2
votes
2answers
212 views
Can AJAX in a CMS slow down your server
I am currently developing some plugins for WordPress, and I was wondering which route to take. Let's take an example, you want to display the last 3 tweets on your page.
Option 1
You do things the ...
2
votes
1answer
118 views
Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?
We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called Bob Roberts Super Widgets. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops.
But the shorthand he's ...
