To make the conditions the best or the most favorable.
18
votes
5answers
268 views
What are some good resources for doing A/B testing of a website?
I know of Google Website Optimizer and have used it some, and it's pretty good. Are there better options? Any good blogs about A/B testing?
14
votes
4answers
4k views
How can I find unused/unapplied CSS rules in a stylesheet?
I've got a huge CSS file and an HTML file. I'd like to find out which rules are not used while displaying a HTML file. Are there tools for this?
The CSS file has evolved over few years and from what ...
14
votes
7answers
1k views
What should I use to automatically combine css/js files?
I'm aware of sprockets for combining javascript files, but haven't tried it. What are some other options and how do they stack up?
13
votes
11answers
1k views
Common optimizations to reduce HTML or XHTML page size?
What are some common optimizations performed to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? Some that come to mind are:
removing comments,
removing extraneous whitespace,
moving repetitive inline styles to a ...
13
votes
9answers
381 views
What can I do to reduce the file size of my images?
Working with some wordpress themes I've been modifying some of the image files and noticed that my edited versions are sometimes 3-4x larger than the original (saved using the same format). I don't ...
13
votes
5answers
996 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?
12
votes
1answer
839 views
Ideas to improve website loading speed?
Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website?
I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity of mobile websites it's now imperative that sites ...
11
votes
4answers
2k views
Should I combine js/css files into a single file?
Both YSlow and Google's Page Speed add-ons recommend combining script (and style) files into a single file each to reduce the number of HTTP requests, and I can certainly see the point of this when ...
9
votes
1answer
215 views
Hosting speed tests?
Are there any sites to test the speed of your hosting? I know there are sites that will tell you why your site is slow, e.g. - YSlow, etc., but how about the speed of bandwidth you get from your ...
8
votes
9answers
376 views
How do I compress my JavaScript and/or CSS?
I know that there are ways to dynamically load it into the page, but if I want to compress my code so it loads even faster, how do I do it?
8
votes
2answers
1k views
When to use and not to use ETags
I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is:
ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason to ...
8
votes
8answers
223 views
CSS reduction for faster loading / less bandwidth
Is compacting CSS / Removing unused rules for a specific page worthwhile in terms of bandwidth or can we rely on caching (headers/last-modified) to remove this overhead in the wild?
Cheers
Also, ...
7
votes
3answers
531 views
How big sites scale up and optimize to massive traffic?
How do sites like Facebook and Twitter optimize their sites for massive traffic. Aside from spending big bucks on getting the best servers, what can be optimized in your code to accommodate massive ...
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 ...
7
votes
6answers
649 views
drupal site speed increase
I'm using a drupal site with a theme from rockettheme.
The users are member users. The problem is for unknown reason the site is very slow. Takes around 20 seconds to open the page.
I have tried ...
7
votes
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 ...
7
votes
2answers
47 views
Are there services that specialize in converting design into layout?
Are there reasonably-priced services that will take a PSD design concept that was created by a local designer and generate at least a first take on decent HTML?
I know what I want (content-first, ...
7
votes
2answers
485 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 ?
6
votes
4answers
282 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. ...
5
votes
2answers
113 views
How is the pagespeed in google webmaster tools measured?
With the inclusion of the page performance in the google ranking algorithm, What things can be done to get better figures on the webmaster tools performance measure? if the onload method of the page ...
5
votes
2answers
233 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 ...
4
votes
6answers
173 views
What is a good program for optimizing images on a website?
I have some extensive website that I need to analyze the images and see if they can be optimized. Can any one recommend a good program for this?
4
votes
3answers
112 views
Image Optimization for my site
I use a hosted CMS and do not have server side access so I cannot set expiry for images but was told it helps to optimize my images and improve my site speed. My question is what exactly does it mean ...
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 ...
4
votes
4answers
299 views
Software to combine multiple images
Combining multiple images into a single image is a good way to improve performance by reducing the number of http requests. But how do most webmasters manage their combined images?
Is there any ...
4
votes
1answer
702 views
How to fix “Leverage browser caching” error from Page Speed plugin
I'm using the Page Speed Firebug plug-in to check my sites.
But I don't know how to fix the "Leverage browser caching" error, since I don't know you specify a cache lifetime to the browser in images ...
4
votes
1answer
415 views
How to show content for logged-in vs logged-out users?
We have a set of pages with the following urls:
www.mysite.com/info/page1.html
www.mysite.com/info/page2.html
www.mysite.com/info/page3.html
Each has a structure as follows:
----------------------
...
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 ...
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. ...
3
votes
3answers
290 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:
...
3
votes
2answers
164 views
I'm seeing a lot of a new format for title elements for major sites: a few tags, and only then the title of the site itself, is this now optimal SEO?
I'm seeing a lot of sites go to a format similar to the one now in use by stackexchange sites (i.e. short topic - maybe a long topic - only finally the site's name). Is this optimal SEO? It seems ...
3
votes
2answers
136 views
3 Scenarios for most relevant keywords in website. Which one is best?
A webpage about Tomato Soup has either of three following filenames:
Scenario 1
website.org/en/tomato-soup
or
Scenario 2
website.org/en/tomato-soup-healthy-soups-recipes
or
...
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
1answer
294 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
1answer
440 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
4answers
354 views
Google Shopping: beyond the basics, how can I optimize for high placement?
Of course, including keywords in the product page title/description and associated feed. But what else?
Would be interested to hear your thoughts on:
- PageRank of destination page
- how product ...
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
508 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 ...
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
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} ...
3
votes
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
2answers
142 views
Optimizing wordpress to handle 7 times spike in traffic
My Wordpress site jumped from 3,000 visits to over 20,000 via organic traffic. How can I optimize it to handle the current load?
I know their are some brilliant minds on here. Any illumination in ...
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
6answers
362 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 ...
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
385 views
Buttons in pure CSS3 or use image sprite
I want to know if it would be better to make an image for the buttons that I use, or can I get away with pure CSS. Ill give you the code.
html:
<ul id="buttons-dev">
<li ...
2
votes
1answer
295 views
One gzip test returns positive, one returns negative.
Can anyone help me figure this.
If I use this compression test it tells me my site uses gzip. But when I run the yslow Firefox plugin it tells me my site does not use gzip.
Has anyone came across ...
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?
...
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 ...
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 ...
