how to clear web cache in mozilla firefox…including memory, disk and offline cache

Clear Web Cache in Firefox

Web caching is a mechanism used mostly in browsers where it temporarily stores images, scripts, content and other parts of the webpage locally during the process of web browsing. There are several advantages to web caching while web browsing: Faster page loads: Web pages contain several parts which might be the same across several pages of a website, such as…

comparing pageviews per visit and bounce rate as a measure of user engagement

Google analytics Bounce Rate and Pages per Visit

Pageviews per Visit and Bounce Rate are two different but related statistics that measure user engagement on your website. Bounce rate shows the percentage of visitors who viewed just one page on your website as compared to the visitors who visited more than one page. The Pages per visit measures the average number of pages that were viewed by all…

5 caveats to be aware of before using data compression

Gnome Data Compression Software

Data Compression or compressing of your files and folders do have many advantages. It is a process by which the resources such as disk space and network time can be conserved by reducing the overall size of the files. There are several reasons as to why you might want to compress the files and folders, several of which are good….

what is data compression and why use it

Zip File opened in Ark for KDE

Data compression is a process by which the file size is reduced by re-encoding the file data to use fewer bits of storage than the original file. The original file can then be recreated from the compressed representation using a reverse process called decompression.  There are several different algorithms and implementations that allow you to compress your files, some of which…

what is google adwords and how to determine if it is for you

Logo of Google Adword

What is Google AdWords? Google Adwords is an advertising product from Google which allows users to create, target and track the performance (of your) advertisements on the internet. That is probably as simple and short an explanation as it is going to get. Google provides this free product/service which allows you to market and monitor your performance online. While the…

redirect non-www domain to the www domain and avoid duplicate content

Lost Saloon preferred domain version

A webpage or the website itself, can have more than one version of the URL pointing to it. This creates some issues for a search engine and for the SEO of the website itself, often referred to as the canonicalization issue. Canonicalization  or c14n, in the world of websites, is the process in which the best URL is chosen for…

how to reduce image size using any photo editing software

Dialog Window to Index the colors of an image in Gimp

A high resolution image or photograph usually also have a very high file size. If you are planning to upload the image to a website to share or just using it on your webpage or blog a  page, then the image size becomes a problem.  A large image size is not desirable in many situations. When used in a webpage…

5 compelling reasons you should have a network router at your home

Network Router Ethernet Port

Network Router is a network device that sits usually between an internal network (LAN or Local Area Network) and the external network (usually a WAN or the internet) and forwards network data packets to machines based on their addresses. You usually need a network router if you have an internal or home network and have to connect to the internet. You…

how to speed up your internet? 3 easy ways to do it…

Internet Speed Keyboard

You can always squeeze a little more out of your network speed. Here are three ways to further speed up your internet/network connection speed. First, do an internet speed test to ensure that you getting a good network speed, something that your ISP promised that you will get. Usually you are never going to hit what they promised, but you…