Category Archives: Web Performance

According to Alexa statistics, today Magento is the most popular CMS among the online stores of the Top 1 Million. The reasons for this are many, and include a built-in rich functionality, intuitive interface, a variety of templates, extensions and more. However, if you are familiar with this CMS, you already know that its main disadvantage – the low performance - is making itself felt. The value of this indicator for eCommerce can not be overstated: in addition to the [...]

The main thing for website is to provide quality content, but none of the Websites will be successful if it is granted with the good stuff, but long overdue. If you have a website in Flash and it's full of different information, and your regular readers are aware of this, they may wait for the download. On the other hand, if your website is a bare text, and it is loaded by the same amount of time, no one will [...]

Content Delivery Network – is the system which serves content to the user. Service provider, providing CDN services offers to transport static content and streaming video as quickly as possible to the consumer. For the distribution of content on the server system the company uses its own dedicated network or the Internet, and the distribution of content on the CDN servers is also optimized. Switches are used though, which operate not only on the 2nd channel level, but also [...]

Content Delivery Networks became an integral part of all kind of businesses, that work online. That is why the use of service, providing by variety of CDN companies, growths year by year. They use CDNs to optimizetheir websites. But when there are some problems with CDN, it needs an optimization too. And CDN performance tracking is not so simple. Thereareseveralmetrics tomeasuretheContentDeliveryNetworkanditsconditionatthemoment. Here canbenamedthree CDN monitoring metrics: server response time performance; individualpageelements; hostspeed. Response time from CDN servers is one of the most important indexes [...]

One of the main reasons of CDN popularity now days is Google (and other searching engines). Google has started using pagespeed as a ranking factor, that’s why website CDN (and boosting that it can give) is now in use of many businesses and webmasters. CDN however provide a faster experience for customers (users) and this definitely influence on users satisfaction and consequently - on sells. An additional reason of CDN popularity – is a big growth of mobile users, [...]