I may be jumping the gun here a little. This morning I decided to take a look at my stats to see how the Tweetmeme button is working out on this site since I added it. If you look at my past posts you will see that the button itself has not been heavily used, but the important thing to note is that it is being used. Just one tweet by a user with tons of followers could dump in some real traffic. Continue reading »
Dec 122009
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This is just a quick post to about the special I am having on my usability and design analysis. There is just one week left to get the analysis for just $19.95.
Get BWI’s web usability and design analysis, and learn how to improve your websites function, forms, navigation, design, and a whole lot more! This is not just another ebook, or an automated test. Get a real, detailed site review covering 35 points, a written conclusion, and suggestions.
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The next three people that order will also get a free review about your website or service that I post on this site. Continue reading »
Obviously, keeping your website pages small is a great way to ensure your site loads quickly. I’m also guessing many of you want to add a little flair to your site, so at some point you will have to say enough is enough. Hands down, you announce you have made your site load as fast as it can. Unfortunately, if you thought you were done speeding up your site by crunching file size, there is still more to do. Download time is one thing, rendering that download into a page the visitor sees is a whole new game.
Google’s advice to improve rendering speeds heavily relies on optimizing your CSS file. They also mention to make sure to specify image sizes as well. You know, with width=”this” and height=”that”. Continue reading »
Dec 082009
It’s time for another post to help your site load faster. My last post, Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website, finished off with caching. The next step to take for speeding up your website is to minimize round trip times, RTT.
RTT refers to all the requests required when a user accesses your website. This is not a size of file issue, but a number of requests issue. For example, my home page currently has 24 resources that need to be requested and transferred. The less the site has, the faster the transfer. Continue reading »
Sticking to this weeks theme of speeding up your website, I thought I would address the most likely source of all our visitors, Google. Google may not be your primary source of visitors, but I’m sure you are getting at least a fair percentage of your traffic from them.
To make sure they are happy with your site, a good start would be to make sure you have taken their recommended steps to ensure your site is optimized for fast loading. Continue reading »
Dec 072009
Slow loading website are most certainly a dying breed. If your website takes more than ten seconds to load, you might as well have a giant website under construction image up as well. Doing my analyses, I found the average home page load is usually between 2.5 and 7.5 seconds. If you want anybody looking at your website, it’s time to speed that load time up. This week I will be posting several tips on how to do just that, starting with some basics today. Continue reading »
Dec 042009
I’ve done it before, and I’m doing it again. For the next two weeks, now until December 18th, 2009, I will be running a promotion on my Web Usability and Design Analysis. The regular price is $29.95, but for the next two weeks you can get it for just $19.95.
Here is Why You May Need or Want One
If you have a website, and are trying to improve it, you definitely qualify as potential customer that may want one. If your site is going nowhere, no matter how much marketing you put into it, you qualify as a potential customer that needs one. Continue reading »
Yesterday I received an email from one of you asking me where the graph came from on my recent post, Get Free Usability and Design Tips by Not Subscribing.
The graph came from FeedCompare.com. All you have to do is type in the Feedburner name into the form, and their you go, a two year history of numbers graphed just for you. Use BestWebImage to give it a try. When you do, make sure you look at the two year view. You can see why I am such a huge fan of my new method for getting “subscribers”. Continue reading »
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