Speed is a critical element in a user’s experience of any website, and Google has suggested that load times may become a factor in page ranking. With this in mind, GT is excited to introduce a free tool for measuring the speed of your site.
GTmetrix subjects individual URLs to a range of tests developed by Google and Yahoo!, and presents the results in a detailed, comprehensive report complete with tips on how to improve your performance.
Home Services Engine manages a massive, Gossamer Links-powered database of over 800,000 home service listings which allows its users to find the type of business they’re looking for in their neighborhood.
Delivering search results relevant to a user’s location quickly when you’re dealing with 7 gigabytes worth of listings from across the United States is no easy task, but Home Services Engine manages to return local businesses quickly and efficiently every time. Here’s how they do it, and how Gossamer Threads helped.
LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.
Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.
Gossamer Threads acquired a new toy for our data centre – well it’s not ours, but we’re allowed to play with it! Take a look at our new Google Search Appliance!
Part of our managed hosting service includes the active monitoring of your servers. If ever there is a bottleneck or a slow down in your website, we can tell you exactly where it is occurring and how to remedy the issue. Our consultation also allows for you to anticipate growth, plan for the future, and handle the mass amounts of traffic that you might expect.
We’ve now added MySQL performance monitoring to give you more information at your fingertips, so you can know exactly what is going on with your site.