How to measure speed of your website

How to speedtest your website

Website owners should be aware of Google started changing websites ranking based on pages loading time back in 2010. Google uses a multitude of factors to determine how to rank search engine results. Typically, these factors are either related to the content of a web page itself (the text, its URL, the titles and headers, etc.) or were measurements of the authenticity of the website itself (age of the domain name, number and quality of inbound links, etc.). However, in 2010, Google did something very different. Google announced website speed would begin having an impact on search ranking. Now, the speed […]

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Benchmarking website for heavy traffic

How to benchmark your website for heavy traffic

Having your website ready to stand for heavy traffic spike could be very important, especially if your business is running promotional campaigns or sends many promotional emails. But how could you ensure your website could stand this spike? Fortunately, there are free tools available that help you to stress your website and estimate how many visitors it can handle. During our daily managed hosting duties, we especially like the tool loader.io. The loader.io has free account option and allows to test one website. When we benchmark client’s server before releasing it to the customer, we ensure it can handle at […]

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