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Social Share Buttons – Site Performance and Security Killers

July 13, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

All content marketers want their posts to go viral. But some social share buttons are major performance and security offenders. And some even track viewers who share your posts, which is a privacy issue. See the eye-opening results of 13-point, head-to-head tests on 12 of the most popular social share button plugins and how the one your using stacks up.

How Your Messy Hosting Account is Costing You Big

June 16, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

If you’ve had an online business for long, it’s likely that your hosting account is in a mess, and you probably don’t even know how bad it is. It could be full of abandoned sites orphaned files from deleted plugins orphaned database tables from deleted plugins or clogged with tons of old emails. All of […]

Upgrade to Google Universal Analytics

April 4, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

Google Analytics will soon be known as Universal Analytics. There are two steps to upgrade. Plus, there are several ways to connect analytics to your website. This is not something you want to put off, as Google will eventually deprecate the old analytics code. I’ll show you a quick way to check your analytics account […]

How Site Performance and Security Work Together

March 9, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

Can your website perform faster if it has better security? Absolutely! In fact, better security may be the only reason your site performs at all when there is a surge in bot attacks. Read on to see how performance is tied directly to security and what you can do to improve both on your site.

WordPress Site Performance 300% Improvement in 3 Easy Steps

February 27, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

Improve site performance 300%. This is the first in a series of posts on exactly how to improve site performance. Everything in the series is based on exhaustive testing that details the test conditions and exactly what each change improved.

Bot and Hacker Attacks are Escalating – Protect Your Site

February 10, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

Website hosts and domain providers are struggling to keep your site live in the face of bot and hacker attacks that are increasing in both frequency and intensity. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do to help your site stay available.

Improve Site Performance Case Study – On Sutton Place

February 3, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

A fast loading site makes more money. That was the main motivation behind site owner Ann Drake contacting me to help her tweak On Sutton Place. Ann is big on Pinterest, where images are everything. She has also acquired several lucrative AdSense accounts.

Her site was running slow and it was costing her money.

The graphics for both Pinterest and ads presented their own challenges with performance. But image optimization was the least of the problems, and not where we started optimizing this site.

What follows is a full case study on the steps we took, and are still taking, to improve the performance and user experience with On Sutton Place.