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Graph Milestones

Milestones indicate the approximate date when the Web server was moved from one location to another. We specifically did not perform measurements at the time of the move (DNS requests may receive a different IP for the same domain from different locations, where the testing servers are located). Therefore we have the graph with two or more segments. It's a data measured before and after webserver was moved to the new location.

Website Latency (Ping Test)

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Dynamic of the Latency Changes for the website from various locations.

Why the low latency is important with this site as an example

To display this website browser needs to download 59 objects. Though modern browsers use parallel connection now, we'll simplify the conditions and calculate the time spent by the browser for these sites in a single-threaded mode. Time required to establish HTTP connection only: + preparation of the webserver response. Number 3 in the formula is a three phase of a TCP connection: sending a SYN request from the client to the server, sending ASK + SYN from the server to the client and the ASK sending from the client to the server. Though we can not calculate the time for a webserver response, the total time for sending and receiving requests for each of the object will be: Of course, modern browsers use several simultaneous connections to download content from a domain (from 2 to 8 at the time of writing this document). And in some browsers the number of connections can be set manually (Opera). But, if you impose these data on the first site Nearbynow.com from the latency table for the city Santa monica, it turns out that the difference in time only for the sending and receiving requests to the web server could be: 10.27 sec. Sure, making such calculations must always take into account the audience site, and always make an accent on the fact that the server should always be so geographically closer to the primary audience as it possible. Also we recommend to pay attention to an article about importance of the latency on our site.

DNS Lookup Speed

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Florida, Tampa

Germany, Frankfurt
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United Kingdom, Gloucester

The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

Page Speed Test

   

Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Ways to improve website performance

Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external factors.

Reduse DNS Resolve

Browsers must resolve site's hosts to display all of the elements of the Mahalo.com's page. Every domain name resolve requires a time, which precedes the load from a specific domain. You can speed up page loading by reducing the number of hosts, from which elements of the page are loaded.

Keep Components under 25K

Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc. are less than 25K.

Specify image dimensions

The browser needs to know the actual dimensions of image (width and height) to quickly render webpage.

We have detected that the 48 images has no width and height.

If you do not specify the width and/or height, then in order to correctly display the image browser needs to download it and only then put on the screen. Otherwise, there is a chance browser will display elements under the picture inappropriately as well as the possible presence of "jumping" effect of the page content (until the page load is finished).

We provide below example of how to define the image http://cdn.mahalo.com/content/assets/clear.gif dimensions:

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<img class="hp-serp-image" src="http://cdn.mahalo.com/content/assets/clear.gif" style="background: url("http://origin-cdn.mahalo.com/content/images/c/c1/How-to-save-money_20100527.jpg") n..." alt="How to Save Money" width="IMAGE_WIDTH_HERE" height="IMAGE_HEIGHT_HERE">

Content Semantics

We suggest you along with important and well-known tags like Title & H1 use also H2, H3, H4, H5, STRONG tags. Each page can (and should) highlight not only the main topic, but also complement the semantic core of the page and the whole site with the secondary keywords. For example, if the main topic of the page is dedicated servers, there is a probability that page has a blog about managed dedicated servers. If so try to highlight the title of the block by using tag <H2>, and an information that you provide this service in the United Kingdom highlight with H3 tag and so on. Thus try to highlight every important fragment of the information on your page with tags like STRONG, H2, H3, etc. We did not find H2 tags, H3 tags, H4 tags, H5 tags, STRONG tags on the page

Use the TITLE for A tag

As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing. For example, you have the link on your website:

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<a name="top" id="top">

We suggest you to remake it in this way:

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<a name="top" id="top" title="knowledge sharing">

Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "knowledge sharing" that describes the link .

Number of links on the page

Try to avoid a large number of links on the page. Our robot have found 113 links on this page. Google recommends to keep the number of links fewer than 100. More information about this topic you can find in Google Webmaster Guidelines and in the post "How many links per page?" by Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team)