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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. Caching can help your website combat this issue. Lets jump right in!

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

However, if your content isnt dynamic, you can also cache responses at the CDN edge node. If we run a TTFB test on a website that uses a CDN, we can see that each server response comes from a regional data center close to where the request was made. By default, the actual HTML request still has to be sent to your web app.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. The first task was providing education on what website performance actually means , and how it can be measured.

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DNS Blacklist Monitoring: Protect Your Company’s Reputation

Dotcom-Montior

It monitors IPs that could be sending out spam or fraud content. This is where DNS Blacklist monitoring plays an important role. What can Dotcom-Monitor do for DNSBL monitoring? This is where the Dotcom-Monitor platform can help. Final words on DNS Blacklist Monitoring.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the response from the DNS is incorrect, you won’t be able to access the website. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring.

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How to Monitor Your Website Resource Breakdown

MachMetrics

Monitoring your website resource breakdown is one of the most important things you can do when you own or run a website. Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts , Page Weight , and CSS files have on your website performance. Website Resource Monitoring is Key!

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