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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. 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: <? ZURB Ink: Responsive HTML Email Framework Ink is an open source framework that will help you quickly build responsive HTML emails for all major email clients. Even in outdated and notoriously problematic ones like Outlook 2000. Ink just launched today. This open source project is by ZURB, creators of the popular front-end web development framework, Foundation. Ink helps solve a major pain point: Creating a simple HTML email that works halfway decently in the countless of desktop and Web email apps out there is already a big — and often a very frustrating — undertaking. But with more than 40% of emails being viewed in mobile devices, sending out responsive HTML emails is, on the other hand, crucial. How will Ink solve your responsive HTML email misery? Ink’s Notable Features Here’s a quick rundown of interesting things I found in Ink. Five responsive email boilerplate templates out of the box, which will definitely be useful to new users of the framework (the screenshot below is the Newsletter template). Author: Jacob Gube

A Case Study In Changing URL Structure In one of the SMX videos available in the member’s area of Search Engine Land, several panelists noted that a shorter URL is more likely to be clicked in the SERPs than a longer one. That is, if you have a URL like it is less likely to get clicked than the following one, which is the same but without the dates: As I researched this, I noticed that Search Engine Land does not use dates in its URLs, nor does Google spam expert Matt Cutts, nor does Aaron Wall. Since I have been using dates in my URLs on my blog for over two years, I researched how I could go about changing to not using dates. RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*) $ (Notes: This should be all one line, and to make this work for my blog I had to change “domain.com” to “keenerliving.com”) /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to the following: /%postname%/ It will take a while for Google, MSN, and Yahoo!

SiteTimer 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. 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. Reasons for slow load speeds

16 great .htaccess Tricks and Hacks ~ SoftwareRoxer The .htaccess files (Hypertext Access file) is a very powerful configuration tool on Apache web server. The Apache web server has a number of configuration options that are available to the server administrator. The .htaccess is a simple ASCII text file placed in your website root directory. You can create and edit an .htaccess file using a text editor like notepad. Here in this blog post I have come up with useful 16 tips and hacks to configure your web server. As a configuration file .htaccess if a very powerful and a slight syntax error can result in a severe malfunction of your server. ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.php ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.php ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.php 2. SetEnv TZ America/Houston 3. deny from 145.186.14.122 deny from 124.15 If you use the whole IP or a part of the IP to block and add the new ones in a new line. 4. Redirect 301 /d/file.html 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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. If you want to automate our Ping Test, there's also a subscription service which you can sign up to. SEOmoz | URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects - How does it all work? URL rewrites and 301 redirects... you talk about them, you recommend them, but do you truly understand how they work? Sure, you know that rewriting a URL means that the URL displayed in the browser changes to be more SEO (and user) friendly. And you know that a 301 redirect is a permanent redirect. As a developer, my very first SEO project was the task of rewriting a massive number of URLs and ensuring that the old URL redirected to the new. URL Rewrites Rewriting a URL means changing the way the URL is displayed in the browser. URL Rewrite Process: User lands on new SEO'd URL Using mod_rewrite, ISAPI_Rewrite, etc. new URL points to old URL on the server Server calls the code from the old URL Page is displayed in browser, displaying the new URL From the server's perspective, nothing has changed. 301 Redirect Once the URL is rewritten, you want to make sure that the old URL 301 redirects to the new. Using the rewrite and redirect together brings the solution full circle.

Specify your canonical Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version. Let's take our old example of a site selling Swedish fish. Imagine that your preferred version of the URL and its content looks like this: However, users (and Googlebot) can access Swedish fish through multiple (not as simple) URLs. Or they have completely identical content, but with different URLs due to things such as a tracking parameters or a session ID: Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:

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