Category Archives: Web Development, Marketing

Online gaming is a significant Internet market, and for many organizations around the globe, a revenue-generating business that continues to grow exponentially. With over 2.5 billion video gamers around the world, this industry is expected to be worth over 90 billion U.S. dollars by 2020. For game developers having infrastructure that can host their service while providing gamers with a superior experience is vital to their success. As their player base is effectively their revenue engine, gaming service providers need to ensure their infrastructure can scale and [...]

11 Mar 2019

The Pros and Cons of an Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP)

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AMP is an acronym for the Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) project. It is an open source initiative launched by Google and Twitter that increases the loading speed for web pages on mobile devices. At its core AMP is a stripped-down form of HTML, effectively making it a web page designed to be extremely lightweight and fast loading. It derives its speed advantage over regular web pages by limiting the number of tags allowed on an HTML page. It also [...]

29 Oct 2018

How CDN SEO Helps Improve Search Result Rankings

Any internet-reliant business strives to achieve good SERP rankings. While Google is constantly making tweaks and changes to its algorithm and improves the effectiveness of ads, nothing gets close to being as effective as organic traffic. CDN SEO is what you need in this case. While the main ranking factors – compelling, top-notch quality content, link-building and social media coverage – remain unchanged, page loading speed is becoming increasingly important as time goes by. In 2010, Google started to pay a [...]

27 Aug 2018

Top 10 Web Performance Online Tools for Webmasters

Nowadays, any company’s website resembles the top performing sales rep, reputation sheet and primary revenue driver in every industry. Whether you’re a SaaS business or an e-commerce site, taking all the measures against website downtime is paramount. Each second of downtime can potentially impact your company severely, leading to lost sales opportunities, dissatisfied customers and a poor first impression, and eventually affect customer loyalty and overall reputation. (more…)

16 Apr 2018

HTML vs HTML5

HTML has been the standard coding language for web pages for decades now. As the internet evolved, HTML has changed, too. Today, the coding language is now on its fifth version. HTML5 may have some things in common with the initial version of HTML, but it’s also very different in a number of ways. HTML, which is short for Hyper Text Markup Language, isn’t actually a programming language like C# or Java. Instead, it’s a markup language. It organizes and [...]

26 Mar 2018

Beginner’s Guide to Minifying CSS, HTML, and JS

Websites have been making use of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript or JS for years. Unfortunately, the more of this code you add to your website, the slower that a website can be. That’s why programmers and web designers need to practice minification. This programming model involves analyzing the text of a website in order to reduce each page’s file size. The smaller the file is, the faster it will load for the user. How Does It Work? When a web developer [...]

12 Dec 2017

How Site Speed Affects Cyber Monday Sales

The Monday after Thanksgiving consistently ranks as one of the busiest online shopping days in the United States. Dubbed ‘Cyber Monday’, millions of consumers take to the internet to buy holiday gifts. According to a report by Adobe, 2017 was a record-setting year for Cyber Monday, with online retailers selling more than $6.59 billion worth of goods. That number could be even higher, however, if online retailers optimized their sites for faster load times. Site speed plays an important role [...]

27 Sep 2017

Slow Page Speed And Conversions

Did you know, that a 1 second delay in page load time can cause conversions to drop by 7% (Kissmetrics)? The steady increase in technological innovation has caused people to become more impatient than ever. Whether we are shopping from a desktop or a mobile device, we no longer expect to have to wait for a page to load. In fact, data from a recent Google study shows that 53% of people on mobile devices will leave a page if [...]

04 Jul 2017

How CDN Can Influence Your Google Ranking

If you own an eCommerce website, you need to have good SEO rankings to get more visitors and conversions. There are quite a lot of things that may influence on the way Google or Bing may rank your website. One of them is a CDN. Today, we’re going to speak about a CDN and the way it influences on SEO ranking. A CDN is a network of servers scattered around the world and used for storing CSS, JS, image and audio [...]

12 Jun 2017

Main Features Your Website Needs to Be Profitable

Owning an eCommerce website can become a good way for earning some money. However, it doesn’t mean that you will start earning immediately after having launched your own web platform. Your main goal is to attract your website visitors’ attention to the product or service your website is advertising and persuade them to purchase it. Today, we’re going to give you some tips and clues on how to make your site a profitable one with the help of some simple [...]