I’m pretty good at wasting your time. By Tom Sherman.
My site is hosted with Pair. Recently, I had been having lots of problems with PHP exceeding the allocated 16 megs of memory and being killed by Pair’s monitoring scripts — sometimes 3 or 4 times an hour.
I fixed the problem and thought I’d share for anyone else in my situation.
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If you’re on WordPress and are using a lot of plugins, chances are that your blog is slower. No, not because of the plugins’ functions — that’s easily mitigated by WP-Cache — but because each of the plugins is inserting its own JavaScript and CSS into your blog. This causes users to have bigger page downloads and more HTTP requests, slowing everything down.
Note: This tutorial is for advanced users. Be careful! I screwed my blog’s commenting up for a while after posting this. :) I do not recommend messing with scriptaculous stuff — just leave it be. If you’re a novice, you probably don’t care about your site being a little bit slower, so this isn’t worth the effort.
The best thing to do is to consolidate your CSS and JavaScript into singular files. This isn’t always possible — sometimes, the contents of included CSS and JavaScript depend on variables set in the plugins — but usually the included JavaScript and CSS are static.
MySpace is a terrible, terrible website. It’s kind of an embarassment to mankind that it’s gotten so popular, seeing as it’s one of the most unintuive, poorly designed sites on the web.
That said, lots and lots of people are on it, so maybe you can’t avoid it. (I try but I fail.) If you can’t avoid it, at least make it usable. Here’s what I do.
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I think by now that just about everyone knows that search engine results are important. Where your site places in Google and Yahoo (and to a lesser extent, MSN) for important terms can make or break it, depending on the industry. People pay big bucks for SEO. People pay big bucks for text advertising, whether it’s AdWords or YPN.
But perhaps the importantance of SERPs—that’s “search engine results page” for the uninitiated—was never clearer to me than when I received an e-mail today from my mother. Mom’s competent enough with getting around the Web and doing word processing, but she doesn’t do much more than that. She’s a typical Internet user. Today, she was doing some research on gas exploration leases, and this is what she wrote:
If you “google” gas fact sheet.pub, you’ll find an informative article from Cornell in New York about gas leases.
Also, if you google shale gas doc, you’ll find interesting info on how they actually extract gas, along with pictures of wells and rigs.
A message board of people discussing gas exploration leasing can be found by googling Naro forum.
I wrote her back and asked why she hadn’t included URLs to the sites she mentioned. The simple answer. She didn’t know how.
I’m not writing to embarrass my mother, of course. (And truth be told, I wrote this up without asking her permission first. Pretty rude of me, eh?) But think about that: the practice of search has so permeated our use of the Web that some users have no idea what a URL is anymore. They speak of sites not in reference to their name, or their URL, but their placement and key terms returned on a Google search.