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Learn speed techniques you can use to increase page download speed. Speed Tweak of the Week shows how to optimize XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, graphics, and other web page components to maximize web site speed and usability.

Optimizing the Boot Time of a Lenovo T430S Laptop: Part II – Expanding RAM

Learn how to speed up the boot time of your laptop with more RAM. In part two of our series we benchmark adding more RAM, a RAM disk, on top of adding a solid-state drive.
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Optimizing the Boot Time of a Lenovo T430S Laptop

Learn how to optimize the boot time of your laptop. Upgrading to a SSD is one of the most effective ways to speed up your computer.
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Case Study: Call Only PPC Ad Optimization

Call only PPC campaigns are a cost-effective way to drive phone calls to your business. In this article we test the effects of a call only campaign on the cost per call for a dental website.
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Case Study: PPC Optimization

Learn how to optimize your PPC campaign to boost leads and reduce costs. We explore location targeting with multiple radii, bid adjustments, and dayparting.
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Case Study: Phone Call Tracking a Dental Website

What is the optimal allocation of your online advertising budget? We compare the cost per lead of organic versus PPC advertising for a dental website.
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Optimizing a Complex Site for Pagespeed II

In Part II of our series on speed optimizing a complex site we explore caching plugins. Adding page caching to a WordPress site nearly halved load times, and more than halved start render and TTFB times.
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Optimizing a Complex Site for Pagespeed

No matter how complex the website, it can be speed optimized. In this article we show how to boost the Pagespeed scores of mymanhattancosmeticdentist.com with mod_pagespeed, some manual tweaks, and the WPOptimize Speed Plugin.
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Google adds Mobile Responsive Ranking Factor

With Google now factoring in mobile responsiveness to search rankings, making your site mobile responsive has just become more important. Not only will your mobile visitors stay longer and convert more, Google will bless your site as mobile friendly.
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Case Study: WordPress Theme Optimization

This article tests the benefits of optimized WordPress themes and hosting. Switching to a fast WordPress theme and optimizing hosting improved page load time by 74% and start render by 83.4%.
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Empirical Study of Web Site Speed on Search Engine Rankings – website performance and seo rankings

This article summarizes the results of a study on load time factors in Google search engine rankings. The empirical study found that website crawl time and its variability strongly correlates with search engine position.
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