Over the past few years, we have seen businesses adopting many different ways to boost their online visibility through websites. The online retailing sales as a percentage of total retail sales worldwide, has increased from 2.5% in June 2005 to 8.6% in 2016, and estimated to grow to 12.8% by 2019. Today online retail purchases account for more than $1 trillion in value. In fact traditional retail businesses are losing their market share as many customers are preferring to make purchases through online websites.
Read more →The site speed and page load times are obviously important metrics that decide the user experience, Google search ranking and customer engagement. Site loading time is critical especially if the businesses are completely relying on the websites for their survival. No matter how anesthetically designed your site is or how good your website ranks in search engines, if it takes too long to load, then users will no longer be interested to continue with it.
Read more →When building an online business, your web host is certainly one of the important aspects that could ensure the quality of your website for your customers. Once your website becomes successful and traffic increases, the old web host may not keep up with the growing requirements due to some inefficiencies. Or perhaps, you have a low cost service plan and you have realized to better change it to a higher quality service with good hosting features.
Read more →The uptime and performance of a website depends significantly on efficient operation of the web hosting company without any downtime issues. Hosting companies do claim many things to attract customers initially but find it difficult to hold on to their promises for long term because of some inefficiencies that creep in over time. Sometimes they bait customers with special offers such as unlimited bandwidth, disk space etc at the expense of other vital features.
Read more →Websites going through downtime is not uncommon, as sometimes the hosting provider schedules a regular maintenance for couple of hours and warns you ahead about the temporary disruption. In such situations, you will have some time to take precautionary measures like scheduling the downtime at non-peak hours or letting the visitors know the website will be up and running in a while.
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