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Key Website Statistics: New Visitors and Conversion Rate
There are a few key statistics that every website operator selling a product or service should track. Of course, these are useful for other types of sites too, but when you’re attempting to sell something, you need to know where to spend your time and/or money to be most effective.
Unique vs New Vistors
A lot [...]
9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
I came across this article on Digg.com. It contains pretty concise tips that I can follow and make sure I’m doing. Since I’m not a designer and don’t necessarily have the best ability to choose matching colors and appropriate fonts etc, I find articles like these helpful to bookmark for reference when tuning [...]
Can Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?
During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters and strange seemingly unrelated content.
Having changed nothing on my blog except for installing WP-super-cache, I decided to add an additional check to [...]
Making WP-Super-Cache gzip compression work
I was pretty excited to see an update to WP-Cache. The first thing I noticed is that when I enabled the new super cache compression option, I started getting a file save as dialog instead of my pages. As of the current version of WP-Super-Cache, the readme.txt file states that if you get [...]
WP Super Cache - The Ultimate WordPress Caching Plugin
I’ve upgraded my old WP-Cache plugin to this one that I found on Digg.com today.
From the Digg.com Post:
Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the other side? Finally, Donncha (one of the main WordPress developers) has solved the problem once and [...]
The Recommended Tags Plugin
Since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, The biggest thing I missed about my old Simple Tags Plugin was the auto-completion that happened for tags when I started typing them in on a post. I started missing that so much that I began to think of writing a new plugin. Before beginning on such [...]