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Nobody Likes a Slow Website We built this Website Speed Test to help you analyze the load speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster. It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you’re not following, and so on. We have tried to make it useful both to experts and novices alike. In short, we wanted it to be a easy-to-use tool to help webmasters and web developers everywhere optimize the performance of their websites. Feature Overview

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Cloud Performance Analyzer (NEW!) CDN Performance Analyzer Discover how CDNs can improve web application performance around the world Modern web applications are very often a mix of elements provided by both the application’s owner and third-parties service providers. For example, even a simple e-commerce application might include a shopping cart from one service provider, directions from a map provider, advertisements from an ad service provider, personalization from a recommendation service, usage of a content delivery network (CDN), and web analytics. The existence of some of these third-party services will be obvious to even the casual user: Google Maps, for example, has a distinct look and feel--and carries the Google logo. Others are much less obvious or completely anonymous to all but the most sophisticated user.

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Content Marketing Today » 7 Simple Steps to Improve a Small Construction Company Website HK construction, LLC. Is a Fort Myers Florida based construction company with a website that could be dramatically better with a modest level of investment in money, time, thinking, and design. The site provides some good basic information about the company that is combined with visuals that appear to represent the kind of construction work it does. This is a very basic site with just six main pages. Making meaningful content improvements would be simple, fast, and inexpensive. WebApps Next Big Thing Without Writing Any Code Ever wished that someone would overlay some data that fascinates you on a Google Map? Ever have an idea for a new desktop widget to take the computing world by storm? Well, no matter what your skill level is, there are tools out there in the world that will help you realize your dreams just by dragging-and-dropping what you need and in the order you want it. Take a look through these ten solutions — which range from common, everyday type of Google Maps mashups to heavy-hitting, enterprise-level applications — and be amazed at how very little work can bring big results. DevHub: A point-and-click solution for developing a site, with monetization in place from the day you open it up.

Build a Killer Website: 19 Dos and Don'ts I’m continually surprised by how many people call my design company with very firm ideas about what they want on their business website and yet, they haven’t thought through some of the most basic questions first. For this reason, our first question is always “Why do you need a site?,” not “What do you want on it?” At bottom your website is a marketing tool. For many businesses, it’s the only source of business. If done right, it can be a major part of yours.

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