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9 Simple Ways to Insanely Speed up Your Website
For every second slower that your website loads, you will get 11% fewer page views, 16% less customer satisfaction and 7% loss in conversions and sales. Furthermore, your slow website could also hamper your SEO, user experience, engagement, brand reputation and Adwords quality score which means that you will be paying more than your faster loading competitors. So how fast is fast enough? 47% of consumers expect websites to load in two seconds or less and 40% will leave a website that takes longer than three seconds to load. In order to speed up your website, we have to checkout your current loading time which you can do with Pingdom. If you have not optimized your website for speed, chances are, you are in for a rude awakening. Not to worry – we will reveal some simple ways here to optimize the speed and performance of your WordPress website.
Recognized as Top User Experience Agency in San Francisco
Big news from here in San Francisco. We have been ranked on two different review sites for being a top web design agency in San Francisco!
13 Most Useful WordPress Plugins for Business Websites
A plugin extends the features and functionality of a WordPress website without you knowing any code. There are over 55,000 plugins so there’s a plugin for anything you need. That’s a whole lot of plugins and you may be wondering which plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress version, play well with other plugins, are customizable and work the best. It is important to note that installing too many plugins will dramatically slow down or even crash your site. Research shows that websites that take longer than 3 seconds to load will lose over 40% of their visitors so it is crucial to install only what is absolutely necessary.
9 Contact Page Best Practices that You’ll Want to Steal
The contact page on a website is usually an afterthought and most often overlooked. Yet, it is the most important page on your website because allows your leads to contact you so that you can ultimately close sales. A well designed contact page guides visitors to the answers they need and helps them ask their questions more effectively, significantly improving their user experience. It also informs visitors where you are located and how they can follow you on social media. If your website is not generating enough leads, you should consider optimizing your contact page with the following best practices.
How to Create a Powerful Homepage that Actually Converts
Your homepage is the most visited page on your website, typically receiving the majority of all website traffic. Your homepage must make a good impression in less than three seconds to convince your visitors to continue browsing. This means that your website design is under tremendous pressure immediately grab your target market’s attention. According to AddRoll, 98% of first time visitors won’t convert on your homepage so here are some ways to drive more conversions so you don’t flush that hard-earned organic traffic down the toilet.
What’s the Difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?
The main difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is who is hosting your website. With WordPress.com, they take care of hosting and you just select a premade theme from their collection. While Wordpress.com is free to setup, you can upgrade your account to get a custom domain name, use one of their premium themes or upload videos.
Flaunting our Spring Website Launches like a Proud Mom!
As you all know, Mother’s Day is just around the corner. As a newly minted mom, I am going to share a selection of our meticulously designed, responsive WordPress websites launches with you. From interior design to wealth management to Reiki healing, designing, developing, launching and subsequently fine-tuning each and every one of these websites is like giving birth; it often takes longer than you think but it is the greatest joy in the world. A word of caution to those of you in the office: you might want to get some tissues ready. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Do I Need SSL if I Don’t Sell Anything on my Website?
Ever wonder why some websites start with http while others start with https? HTTPS means that the website has been encrypted with a SSL certificate. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer which encrypts sensitive data like account logins, credit card numbers and other personal information transmitted between a website and your browser so that no one can intercept it.
How to Monetize your Website or Blog
Monetizing your website is the process of converting your traffic into revenue. Many people do this to develop a passive income stream in hopes to escape the rat race. In order to be successful, you need engaging content that you are deeply passionate about and tons of traffic. With over 1.3 billion websites on the world wide web today, developing convincing content to attract a large audience is a tall order. Passion (not money) needs to be your primary motivation.
8 Epic Fails When Outsourcing Web Development
If you are creating a new website or redesigning an existing one, you have likely considered hiring an overseas web design and development team they promise the moon on a shoestring budget. With massive downward price pressure from website builders, premade WordPress themes and crowdsourcing websites, it is a race to the bottom.
15 Critical Components Every Website Homepage Must Have
Whether you are designing a new website or overhauling an existing one, your homepage is a good place to start since it drives the bulk of your traffic. You never get a second chance to make a first impression so what you include on there will determine how effectively your visitors will convert. Your homepage needs to drive traffic, generate leads and educate visitors. Here are some critical items that you must include on your homepage to be successful.
WordPress Versus SquareSpace – Which one is Right for Me?
Just because we specialize in creating responsive WordPress websites, does not mean that we are oblivious to other content management systems out there. Since Squarespace is becoming increasingly popular with small businesses, we have decided to see how it stacks up against WordPress. Please note that for the purposes of this comparison, we are referring to a self-hosted WordPress website where you pay for your own hosting as opposed using the WordPress.com hosting platform.