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Website Design Tactics to Reduce the Bounce Rate

The Startup Magazine

Consulting a professional web design company can help you resolve issues that can range from a slow loading website, a confusing content layout, aesthetics that don’t appeal, and more. According to experts, the website should ideally load in three seconds or less to prevent visitors from abandoning it and moving on to a competitor.

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In WordPress Hosting Hell? Pantheon Now Supports WordPress

Feld Thoughts

Hosting offers little beyond just hardware and maybe some server configuration. Professional website developers need much more than that — they have to collaborate in teams, work with version control, deploy changes, and as the company grows scale their site and make sure it is running fast 24×7 — aka website DevOps.

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

Custom development. This means hiring/contracting a freelance web developer or an agency to design and develop your site from start to finish. Setting up a website takes less than ten minutes. When you’re ready, you can easily upgrade to a premium plan to take advantage of a dedicated, free domain and hosting.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 9

TechEmpower

For Round 9, Peak Hosting has provided a high-performance environment equipped with 10-gigabit Ethernet at one of their data centers. With ample network bandwidth, the highest-performing frameworks are further differentiated. If you are a web developer using C++, you win this particular bragging-rights game.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software. Cloud computing” is simply a new pricing plan for hosting.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

By disallowing them, Unbounce is able to save on bandwidth and crawl budget —the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes on a website within a given timeframe. Run a crawl report to check that your website is indexable. If not, get help from a web developer. 5xx status codes.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

If your site design is graphically intense, you need to make sure you’ll have the hardware infrastructure and bandwidth to support the designs. You can improve your site load times by picking good hosts. The cheapest monthly hosting option does not typically offer the best value.

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