There are reportedly over 1.7 billion websites, making it almost impossible for yours to stand out unless your name is Jeff Bezos and you started a little-known company called Amazon. That’s why, when our customers asked us what we would suggest to help their website perform better, we thought we’d whip together 8 quick and easy hacks that can easily be implemented but make a big difference.
Website page speed has become more important than ever, especially now Google’s Core Web Vitals are pushing mobile-first and penalising websites it deems to be “too slow”. This means that there is a direct link between slow page speed and lower SEO rankings, and therefore potentially, less traffic to your website.
If you’re in the software development space, or just started a career in software development you’ve probably heard people talking about DevOps. Studies show that 74% of companies have implemented DevOps in some fashion, but what is it exactly?
It’s that time of year again – no, not Christmas, but the hugely anticipated Black Friday. When discounts hit bigger numbers than the lottery, and customers get into a bargain-hunting frenzy. But it’s not all fun and games as a company owner during the biggest sales season of the year; unfortunately, you’re more likely to suffer website issues than on an average day.
We’ve all become more security conscious online with password protection being one of the biggest problems when it comes to potential malicious threats to our personal data. As we start using more and more websites and applications, the need to have unique passwords for each one becomes a goliath task.
Page speed is one of the most important factors in judging the performance of an individual webpage. This is a performance evaluation that is made not just by the user visiting your website, but by search engines as well. In recent years, consumers have come to expect virtually instantaneous results from their devices, and of the websites, they visit.
It’s a common belief that once we purchase a domain, it’ll be ours for as long as we like. Big mistake. Mainly because there are genuine threats to your domain online that mostly go unthought of. For example, hackers can gain access to your system and take your domain for ransom or cause malicious damage to you and your business. Surprised? Well, we have 5 examples of exactly when this has happened, and how hackers have managed to gain access to domains and cause mass disruption.
Here at StatusCake, we get asked a lot of questions about server monitoring, and more specifically, when we know your server has exceeded your set limits, for example. Understanding how we know can show you why server monitoring is so important to your website, and that’s why we’ve collated the most frequently asked questions so you can see for yourself!
It’s easy for us to cruise the net, not really thinking of anything other than exactly what we’re hoping to achieve whether it’s making a payment via online banking or buying a new laptop on Black Friday. But we forget that there’s a whole system working in the background of each and every website, keeping it online and making sure it works to the best of its ability.
I know what you’re thinking, it can’t possibly be that time again. But yes, yes it is, Black Friday once again has come around quicker than Usain Bolt on a running track. After the year we’ve had with the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Friday is set to look slightly different again this year.
