Web development is the practice of building websites. It involves making sites that function optimally and provide a great user experience.
WordPress can be lightning-fast when it is properly optimized. Interestingly, making your WordPress site much faster is often as simple as finding the right plugin. If you install some of the plugins below, your site will: Load much faster. Consume less data for your visitors. Have better user experience, which can boost traffic and revenue. … Read more
Many webmasters want to know whether to include a trailing slash (/) at the end of URLs. This has potential implications for SEO because search engines like Google don’t always see different URL structures as equivalent. Here’s what Google representative John Mu has said about trailing slashes: The short answer is that the trailing slash … Read more
I have obsessed over every small detail when it comes to a website’s user experience. One of the things I have considered is the behavior of links, specifically whether they should open in a new tab / window or not. In this article, I review the pros and cons of opening links in the same … Read more
Time to first byte (TTFB) is the time it takes a web browser to receive the first byte in response after requesting a web page. In other words, if you click on a link to a website, TTFB is the time it takes for you to receive the first piece of data in response. In … Read more
Good readability is absolutely crucial for good user experience. Unfortunately, many websites have font designs that are very hard to read on some screens. When I land on a site with a font that is hard to read, then I often simply leave and click on the next site. I am sure that many people … Read more
The fact that site speed is important is pretty much common knowledge at this point. It simply makes intuitive sense because most people online are impatient and hate waiting for things to load. In addition, Google has officially announced that site speed is an important SEO ranking factor, especially on mobile. But just how important … Read more
Not all websites are created equal. If you want to build a website that naturally attracts traffic and gets people to return, then it needs to be exceptionally good. But what is it that makes a good website? Here are 12 key things to keep in mind. 1. Have a clear topic and stick to … Read more
Buying a domain name is the first step of starting a new website. Fortunately, it is both very easy and super cheap to buy a domain these days. In this step-by-step guide, I will show you how to do this in a matter of minutes. Just follow the 6 steps and you will own your … Read more
It is incredibly easy to buy a new domain name these days. You simply go to the website of a domain registrar and follow a few simple steps to buy a domain. It’s as simple as buying any other thing online. I personally buy all my domains through NameCheap, which is one of the top … Read more
WordPress recently made some changes to links that open in a new tab. It now automatically adds rel=”noopener noreferrer” to the code. Before, the links looked like this: <a href=”https://example.com” target=”_blank”>Anchor text</a> Now, they look like this: <a href=”https://example.com” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Anchor text</a> Although the noopener attribute is useful for security, noreferrer has some major … Read more