Boost PHP Speed With “If-Modified-Since” [1/4]

Improve PHP Performance
Last week I beefed up our blog server with gzip (Triple Website Performance With GZIP).  One reader – Radz – suggested I also investigate something called If-Modified-Since (IMS) for dynamic content.
Compressing script output is great, but what if you could frequently circumvent the need to run scripts altogether?
So, this week we’ll talk about another [...]

Triple Website Performance With GZIP

Has Broadband Spoiled Us?
Do you know some of the most well-designed website home pages are approaching 400k???
More Automation Means More Code
Since discovering the power of WordPress themes and plug-ins, I’ve battled with growing page size and slowdowns from script complexity. With some of our pages approaching 150k, I felt guilty that I was getting [...]

Publish YouTube Video on Your Blog

Turn Your Site Into a Video Blog
One of the many features in the works at Vibe Technology involves streaming video. A good part of last year was spent building a media operations center and discovering that delivering online video is not a trivial task.
How Much Server Horsepower Does It Take?
In addition to racks of [...]

“Torn Rainbow”: New Look for VibeTalk!

New Default Theme Selected
Uh oh, the site layout has changed again! I think you’ll like this new look, based on another Solostream Global Media WordPress theme called Torn.
We’ve modified the layout a bit and renamed it slightly to reflect the pattern of our color-based themes. This one allows you to switch basic color [...]

Automatically Find Related Information

New feature of VibeTalk Posts
When viewing a single post (as opposed to a list of several posts like you get on the main VibeTalk page), you will now see a section called “Possibly Related Posts”.
This feature comes courtesy of Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.’s Related Posts WordPress plug-in.
This highly-configurable plugin automatically searches for the words [...]

Google Analytics Knock It Out of the Park

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Google Analytics Overview
In adding the Analytics service, Google provides a comprehensive product that can be used to complement Ad Sense or any other tracking a web owner might want.
Google has long been the number crunching titan in the web world and prove themselves yet again with this FREE service. They have more reports than [...]

Comparing Crazy Egg, Google and MyBlogLog

Measuring Web Success
You’ve built your website, promoted it and now you’re getting some real traffic.
How will you know the site is successful?
The next logical step is to figure out what visitors are viewing and whether they make it to the right destinations.
By analyzing mouse clicks, website owners can better understand a visitor’s [...]

MyBlogLog Sidesteps Deep Stats Through Communities

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MyBlogLog Overview

MyBlogLog Communities aim to do much more than track clicks – they hope to facilitate relationships through their service.
By hosting a community of blog owners, they essentially categorize information for readers by linking similar sites through common usage over time.
The standard service is free and includes a 3-day trial of the “professional” package (which [...]

Crazy Egg: Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

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Crazy Egg Overview
As a regular reader of WordPress and related site posts, I watched with anticipation the Crazy Egg groundswell over the past several weeks (the WordPress dashboard keeps me pretty up-to-date with related info on the ‘net).
Because VibeTalk is still new and gets low circulation, we didn’t have much at stake in our selection. [...]

Now You’re Talking… Click Tracking by Crazy Egg

They may not know what you’re talking about, but now website owners can more easily know how you’re clicking about.
Crazy Egg is a monthly subscription service from ACS designed to help website designers tune pages toward better interaction. Subscription plans start at free and go up with site volume. The free service allows 5,000 [...]