One year after the launch of DareBoost.com, our performance and quality reports are getting a makeover! Thanks to your feedbacks, after more than a million pages analyzed, we have integrated many new features to these reports!
We offer you to discover the detail.
The theme of an e-commerce store is essential to its success. However, a tailor-made theme is not always made possible, particularly because the related cost may be significant.
As a reminder, the HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is, as its name indicates, the secure version of the HTTP protocol. The HTTPS aims at assuring confidentiality and security of exchanges: the communication being encoded, the protocol protects from eavesdropping, but also from data alteration.
For several years, its use has been more and more present (April 2015, 7 times more requests than in 2011 are made by HTTPS). Though by the end of the year, we should observe a massive intensification of this trend.
Continue reading Chrome, Firefox and Google Search: HTTPS forcing its way
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), how does it work and what are the results to expect (our feedback using CloudFront)?
Continue reading Speeding Up your Website When Going International thanks to a CDN
For the first time a few days ago, a web user spotted a new feature in his mobile research results: the Red Slow Label. This indicator appears as a red box with “Slow” written in it and located right in front of the result’s URL.
This discovery has aroused a keen interest among the SEO communities and the websites’ editors, I suggest you to learn more accross this article.
New best practices have just been added to our quality and performance test tool. On the agenda of this update: SEO, security or else JavaScript code performance tips! Let’s discover the main new checkpoints our tool now gives you.
Working for one of our customers, I’ve been led to focus on PrestaShop available settings for loading time optimization.
This post will be about some useful settings and the results that you may expect from them. For each one, I will briefly talk about related stakes and contexts.
A few weeks ago, we presented you the case of a web agency: New Quest. To continue our serie of studies, let’s see today another type of profile, the one of an e-merchant.
57% of Internet users consider that a website should be loaded in less than 3 seconds. In addition, according to the FEVAD: “61% of e-buyers (had) the intention to make their purchases on Internet during the winter sales” 2015.
Based on this observation, we took interest in the main French e-commerce sites’ performance, before and during this crucial period.
Continue reading Sales 2015: web performance of e-commerce websites
Many of you asked us to be able to test the performance of your websites from more locations.
With today’s post, I wish to make you discover the case of one of our customers, NewQuest, a web agency.
A big thanks to Yann Costes, its CEO, who agreed to answer my questions for this blog post.
We have just proceeded to a major update of our knowledge database, that comes with new checkpoints but also important changes on scoring algorithm.
This blog post details the changes and bring some reminders about the DareBoost scores.
If you use our website quality monitoring feature with a quality goal, please think about updating the threshold.
The Single Page Application concept, that AngularJS is a classical way to use for, comes fast to a major issue. Indeed, as soon as we are working on a consequent application, the amount of Javascript (and eventually of CSS) required by the application on first loading can become a pain.
Each month, DareBoost relays the figures published by HTTParchive.org and offers you a state of the web. This article deals with the latest data, of August, 1st 2014.
As we are used to doing, we will compare these data, with those of last year (August 2013) and those of last month (read last month’s article), for the top 1 000 most visited websites.
More than 11% of the websites using the secure version of HTTP (HTTPs) appear to have a vulnerability.
Continue reading Vulnerability on more than 11% of secure websites
To keep going further in the assistance to the diagnostic process, and to offer you a clear vision of your performance history, we just set up a new dashboard. This section -directly accessible after you log in– has entirely been reworked!
Every month, DareBoost relays the data published by HTTParchive.org and gives you information on the current situation of the web, highlighting the most significant data. This article gives you the figures of July, 1st 2014, bringing out the recent evolutions, and comparing these data to those of 2013 in the top 1 000 most visited websites.
One web optimization that you can easily set-up, lies in your CSS files. Indeed, in most of the cases it is possible to reduce the weight of your website by minifying your “Cascading Style Sheets”.
This article aims at presenting you the principles of minification, and gives an overview of some popular tools to set this technique up on your website.
What are the most noticeable figures of 1st June 2014? What has changed on the web since 2013? New statistics and presentation of data published by httparchive.org, which compiles statistics on more than 300,000 websites twice a month.
We just released our new update (#11) and your score might have changed. Let’s see what we improved this time.
Continue reading Score is More Relevant – New Best Practices Added
The new update (#10) is online, what’s new?
In this update, we both set up new features, and improved the already existing content.
Nowadays, one of the first steps when you create a website is to adopt a CMS. It allows to save time, so you can deploy a website quickly. According to wappalyzer, more than 60% of the websites using a CMS are powered by WordPress (source: https://www.wappalyzer.com/categories/cms). We ourselves have decided to use WordPress for its simplicity (exceptionally, web performance was not our major criterion!)
Here we go! DareBoost just opened its offers for professionals.
Of course, a lot of features are still available for free (don’t forget to configure a monitoring on your homepage !)
This blog post aims to do a quick review of available features with our business offers.
Continue reading Hourly Monitoring and other Professional Features
You have probably ever heard of best practices to improve your website’s quality and performance (configure a cache policy, enable gzip compression…).
However, web performance doesn’t stop to follow general best practices: each technology has its own specific recommendations. Some mistakes are quite trivial, but some others can be painful for your website. The addition of several minor errors can really slow down your final product. That’s why you should always think about performance upstream and during the development step.
The last update (#9) is online, what’s new?
This update is not a major one. Indeed we focused our work to prepare the next release, that will be a heavy one ;)