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Creating an Impactful Web Presence: 5 Key Steps for Your Startup Site 

The Startup Magazine

Leverage browser caching : Caching stores web page resources on local computers, making subsequent visits quicker. Moreover, employing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can distribute the load, reducing the server’s response time. Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML : This reduces file sizes and load times.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. A CDN stores a cached version of your website in multiple locations all over the world. Once you enable caching (more on that in a minute), there is no noticeable difference. Use caching.

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Don’t Let Slow Load Times Limit Your Potential

YoungUpstarts

The most frequently accessed product pages and page elements should be cached so that they don’t have to be repeatedly retrieved on each visit. Set those items to be cached, and they are removed from each reload. Load Distribution. How many of your pages use the same header and footer, or ubernav and menu?

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Best iPhone Photo App – Phanfare Photon

BeyondVC

.  As I wrote back in 2004 , Andrew believed in the idea of client software which was network enabled and sought to create an iTunes like environment for photos with smart caching and local manipulation of media with smart synching so albums and photos could be viewed from anywhere. 

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400

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Ecommerce Content Marketing: Attract, Engage, Close, and Delight Buyers

ConversionXL

Because blog content typically takes advantage of organic search—it’s a free distribution channel that can help get awareness efforts off the ground. Interviews deliver original content and can kick off distribution. If you don’t have an internal cache of data or a big budget, the third option is your best bet. Blog posts.

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11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Memcached is an open source high-performance distributed memory object caching system intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. 8 Use caching (plugins). Pretty useful stuff. Plug’n''play. #4