How to Improve Website Performance Without Harm

If you want to make your site popular among internet users, you should do your best to speed it up. There are quite a lot of ways how you can do this. For instance, you can find an appropriate hosting plan.

However, it’s not the only way you can choose to accelerate your site. Today, we’re going to give you more tips how to make your web platform a speedy one. So let us start.

Tip 1: Make Sure that Your Code Is a Proper One

If you’re willing to create a website, you need to write a code for your web pages. Remember that writing a tight code can help you accelerate your site immensely. So what things can help you write a tighter code?

• You can save more than 50% on file size if you use pure CSS instead of tables;
• Get rid of excess code in CSS and JavaScript;
• Transfer CSS and JavaScript files to external files;

Tip 2: Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Using a CDN can really speed up your site, as this service unites a chain of data centers (Points of Presence or PoPs) where your cached and copied content will be stored.

Such a simple decision gives you an opportunity to deliver your web files to their end users from the servers located not far from their place of residence at a high speed. Besides this, a secure CDN also gives you an opportunity to:

• Reduce load on your initial server;
• Cut down your hosting expenditures;
• Continue delivering your web content even if the initial server shuts down;
• Protect your content from hotlinking, scrapers and other kinds of malicious bots.

Tip 3: Apply for Caching

Caching can also help you make your web pages smaller. For instance, you can put some extra tags in the header to to monitor how pages are cached. If you have the pages that don’t change, you may add a ‘never’ value to the ‘Expires’ header. You can also specify how often pages should expire.

Tip 4: ‘Squeeze’ Your Images

Images often contribute to the design of the website. However, they need a lot of traffic to be downloaded and finally slow down your site. Here are several tips how you can optimize your images:

• Use a special software to cut down the size of the palette of GIFs;
• Transfer your GIF images into PNG images to be able to use PNG optimization software;
• Resize your images with the help of an image editing program.

Today, we have given some clues and tips on how to speed up your website. We hope that our post will help accelerate your site effectively.

Most In-Demand Programming Languages in 2017

There are great many of programming languages, some of them are more popular among developers, and some are less. In order to be competitive and informed on the latest market tendencies in the sphere of programming, we provide you with the list of top-5 popular programming languages that are in demand in 2017.

The language	Language description
SQL - Structured Query Language	This language has won a dramatic lead over other programming languages in recent years, thus, SQL is a clear leader in our list. The language is used in order to communicate with and manipulate databases. The language is common with many variations like MySQL and Microsoft SQL. Moreover, the language has become more open with the popular data analysis programming language, and a Linux version.
Java	The number of Java positions, available in the market has gone up by almost 30,000 in 2017, probably due to continuous Android growth. This is a simple, widely-applied language, used by millions of developers worldwide – all native Android apps are built in Java. Moreover, we remind you about the upcoming Java 9 launch in July 2017, this event will, supposedly, contribute to the language popularization with general public.
Python	Being a general purpose programming language, it emphasizes code readability and, increasing developer productivity, used for desktop apps, web apps and data mining.
JavaScript	This, mainly client-side and dynamic scripting language, is used for front-end development. The programming language is compatible across all browsers, used in over 90 percent of all webpages.
C++	C++ is based on C – the “grandfather” of all programming languages. C++ appears to be a powerful, high-performance programming language, used to develop system software, games engines, desktop and web apps. At the same time, many beginners admit that C++ is harder to learn that Python or JavaScript, for example.