Don't Count Your Hit's!

Written by Maria Marsala


Do you have a hosting service that provides statistics for your website? Did you notice thatrepparttar number of "hit's" to your site is astronomical? Many individuals think thatrepparttar 134616 number of "hit's" tells you how many visitors you've had to your site. WRONG! The correct number to find would berepparttar 134617 number of unique visitors or unique sites. Even if one person visited your site 4 times and viewed 10 of your pages, they'd count as "1" unique visitor.

What do you do if your hosting service doesn't provide "unique visitor" statistics? According to Jim Wilson, owner of one ofrepparttar 134618 most useful sites onrepparttar 134619 web, www.jimtools.com, your "best bet is page views when dealing with your server logs. Another way to go is to use a service like WebTrends Live www.webtrends.com which does a pretty good job of figuring out total visitors and first time visitors." Jim has written an excellent article on web traffic www.jimworld.com rafficreports.html

HIT: Every time someone views a page on your site, each page, each document they could download on that page, and each graphic on that page makes uprepparttar 134620 "hit's" for that page. Example: one page with 4 pictures is equal to 5 hit's.

How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%...And So Can You, For Yours!

Written by Roger J. Burke


Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long asrepparttar Resource Box is left intact.

I would appreciate notification of where it was used, and if possible, a copy ofrepparttar 134615 ezine or newsletter that it was used in. Please send notification mailto:webmaster@online-wealth.com

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How often have you waited, impatiently, for your browser to pull inrepparttar 134616 next website? Too many times, probably.

Many of these slow-poke sites may be worth seeing, but how long are you prepared to wait? Probably no more than 7 to 10 seconds, which is what most say.

Now, you've maybe seen or read a lot about improvingrepparttar 134617 loading time for your website. And, you may even be saying to yourself now, "Oh, no...not another guru trying to tell me what to do!" Well, inrepparttar 134618 first place, I'm no guru (very few can legitimately claim that accolade) and secondly, I cannot tell you what to do.

I can only relate what I did, andrepparttar 134619 improvement I achieved. It's up to you to do something, if you want to...that's your choice! ;-)

Firstly,repparttar 134620 website in question - http://submissionjunction.com - used to load, at off-peak times, on my computer (an ageing 133 mHz, P1, 32MEG RAM, 56k modem) in around 15-20 seconds.

To make things crystal clear, I'll define load time thus:

Beingrepparttar 134621 elapsed time fromrepparttar 134622 moment thatrepparttar 134623 ENTER key is depressed torepparttar 134624 moment thatrepparttar 134625 first information appears onrepparttar 134626 screen (purists would argue that load time is actually more precise, and I agree. For surfers onrepparttar 134627 web, however, this definition will suffice).

Note that I'm not countingrepparttar 134628 appearance of BACKGROUND information within that elapsed time, e.g a tiled .gif, although some may; BACKGROUND, after all, is not strictly information, although it does indicate activity.

Now, a load time of 15-20 seconds is way too slow, and with peak hours and heavy traffic, I ran increased risk that people clicked away.

I wanted a load time of 4-6 seconds in off-peak and no more than 10 seconds duringrepparttar 134629 very heaviest traffic times.

This is how I did it:

1. The banner and headlines, that I want to appear onrepparttar 134630 screen first, are placed immediately afterrepparttar 134631 BODY statement, and before anything else. This isrepparttar 134632 information I want prospects to see quickly, so that I can pique their curiosity and perhaps retain their interest.

2. Formatting, at this stage, is confined to one small TABLE and centeringrepparttar 134633 information: one banner, one small animation and three headlines. This is important; there is no fancy or additional coding at this point.

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