One of the aspects of being a webmaster is to make sure that your web pages are compatible with the most popular web browsers. This requires some tweaking and hacks, especially if Internet Explorer 6 comes into the picture. Validating web pages is just one aspect of this. Most browsers handle invalid elements well so [...]

Categories: Online Services, Web Development

Page speed is a ranking factor in the Google Search engine. According to Google officials it is currently used in 1 out of 1000 queries. I think it was Matt Cutts who said that speed acted as a tie breaker in situations. It is however likely that speed will play a bigger role in the [...]

Categories: Web Development

A part of a webmaster’s routine is the validation of markup languages on managed websites, to make sure that the websites are displayed correctly and uniformly in web browsers. An online tool that many webmasters use is W3C Validator, which can verify the markup of a single web page, and display errors that it encounters. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Site speed has been added as a ranking factor by Google some time ago. Webmasters since then have started optimizing their websites’ page loading times. Some of the optimizations done included reducing the number of elements loaded when people visit the site, optimizing media elements, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using web caching technologies to [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Web Development

Reports about a WordPress hack affecting self-hosted WordPress blogs have appeared on the Internet in March. The hack seems to affect WordPress 2.9.2, the latest version of the blogging platform. To make matters worse there seem to be two – possibly unrelated – issues that webmasters experience. One is a malware attack that is spreading [...]

Categories: The Web

One of the many aspects that webmasters need to take care of is to optimize their websites so that users from all over the world can access it without unnecessary delays because of unoptimized contents. One of the things that need to be optimized are pictures that are displayed on the website. Reducing the size [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Tags are an essential part of nearly every WordPress blog. Webmasters use tags to categorize posts. One side-effect of tagging posts in WordPress is that these tags are sometimes indexed by search engines. Visitors from those search engines will then see a page containing excerpts of the posts that have been tagged with that tag. [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

Google Browser Size is a new web service that has been published by Google Labs that can be used to visualize the browser window sizes of users visiting a specific website. The service will display transparent information on top of the website that has been loaded visualizing how much of the website visitors see without [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

Google has added a new module to Google Analytics called Intelligence. The currently in beta module displays custom and automatic alerts that are created from website traffic operations. It is not sure yet if all Google Analytics users have access to this new module of the website traffic analysis service yet or if it has [...]

Categories: Google