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About SiteTimer Web Monitor allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages. It visits the page that your request and downloads all content that's directly linked from that page; Images Frames IFrames Script files It follows redirects As the pages are downloaded, SiteTimer stores statistics on how long time each item takes to download, and how much data they contained. This information is then presented in a grid. Web Monitor correctly handles http compressed material (see OctaGate Switch), and it also honors keep-alive requests to give an accurate indication of the times a real browser would spend downloading the content. Optimizing your site Your page shouldn't take too long to load, slow load speeds will lead to users leaving your pages even though they're interested in the material. The size of the page is the main deciding factor for download times, coupled with bandwidth. Decrease the size of your images: Use JPG instead of GIF or BMP.

100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Thoughts and Ideas | Onl By Alisa Miller Whether you are a busy executive, a single parent, a freelancer working from home, a student, or a combination of these, you have probably found yourself needing help when it comes to organizing all your thoughts and ideas that occur throughout your busy day. Now you can turn to these tools found on the Internet that will help you with tasks such as note-taking, bookmarking websites, highlighting important text during online research, creating mind maps, tracking time, keeping up with appointments, collaborating with others, managing projects, and much more. Note-Taking and Documents These tools will help you take notes no matter where you find yourself needing to jot something down. You will also find tools that help you create documents from your notes that you can use or share with others. Evernote. Bookmarking Del.icio.us. Mind Mapping A popular way to make sense of all those thoughts and ideas floating around in your head is through mind mapping. Kayuda. Personal Wikis

HTTP Compression Test Compressing your content saves bandwidth and improves render time, particular on devices with slow internet connections. But it also reduces load on your server. While it does take some amount of computer power to compress files on the fly, you save much more power by having your server doing fewer things at once. It takes a lot less time to transfer files that are smaller. Your server is therefor, at any given time, maintaining far fewer open connections. The best way to enable this compression, is by using mod_deflate or mod_gzip. Simply add this line to the top of your PHP documents: <? The Luscher Color Test If you look closely -- very closely -- at your computer monitor, you will see that each pixel is made up of three cells. One cell illuminates in red, another in green and the third in blue. This is sometimes referred to as an RGB monitor. By varying the amount of each of these colors, the human eye can be tricked to see a spectrum of colors, including white and black. The human eye has color receptors called cones. Because these primary colors occur frequently in nature, they have corresponding psychological properties that can change our behavior and emotions. Red Because our blood is red, this color attracts our attention the most. The psychological value of red is associated with fear, anger, danger, heightened awareness, and increased sexual energy. Red is the color that is traditionally given to the lowest chakra, or energy vortex in the human body. Being in a red painted room has a confining effect as red appears closer to the observer than other colors. Variations of Red

Tools Email this test to a friend How does it work? Pingdom Tools - Ping test and Traceroute are distributed versions of the popular network tools, available directly from your browser. With these tools you'll get an outside view of your network response time and network topology, which allows you to track down possible errors more easily. Both Ping and Traceroute work by sending out ping packets and waiting for replies. When a router replies, a green or yellow bar is displayed with the response time. If you want to automate our Ping Test, there's also a subscription service which you can sign up to.

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