Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10

Implement Google Instant Page technology to your website or blog

Google announced about Instant Page technology on their webmaster central blog here. The technology behind this technique can be implemented in your website or blog, and can be very effective if you have idea, around where next user is going to navigate. On Chrome, this will make the next page webpage load in no time. So, what change you need to do on your website / blog ?
Here are the details :

1) Websites :
Open your website template and, before the closing </head> tag, include the following code:
<link rel="prerender" href="http://example.com/page2.html">
The URL (example.com) should point to the next “logical” page. For instance, if you have a photo gallery or a long article that spans multiple pages, the URLs could point to different parts of the page. The prerender tag on Page 1 could point to Page 2 while the prerender tag on Page 2 could point to Page 3 and so on.
A small business website may link to their “about” page or the “products” pages from the “home” page using the Instant Pages tag as that’s where potential customers are likely to go once they land on the home page.
2) Wordpress blogs :
Open your header.php file, copy-paste the following code inside the closing <head> tag  and you’re done.
<?php if (is_archive()) { ?><!-- Instant Pages for Google Chrome -->
<link rel="prerender" href="<?php echo get_next_posts_page_link(); ?>">
<?php } ?> 


3) Blogger blogs :
Still searching for a way to enable it. If any of our reader has the code to change in template or header, please share with us.

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Here is the video describing about Google's Instant Page technology :

This is the chart for this year's browser trend from Stat Counter.
If you compare the graph, you will come to know that chrome is increasing popularity, and we are hoping that after this instant page loading feature, chrome will gain more popularity.
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Note : One of best thing apart from the fact that it is free, Qalixa works with majority of browsers.

Saturday, May 7

Trying out with Free URL Shorteners

 

There are many free sites that provide the functionality to shorten the URLi. URL shortening is very effective, when you have a complex URL but to easily share, you want to shorten it, thus allowing you to post on tweeter feeds, easy for people to remember, and many sites also provide the feature to record the stats, so that you can keep a eye, how many hits you got.

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We feel very tempted specially about the clicks monitoring part, and so, decided to test these features, with the URL shortener sites, available in market, of course, this list contains some of those, who are free, as you all must be knowing, Qalixa strongly believes in “free things” !

There is already a post published in our tech blog, about Qalixa’s link shortened by various URL’s. In this post, we simply review  those in a brief manner.

Top 3 services according to us are goo.gl, bit.ly  & su.pr in no respective order, su.pr is very famous Stumble Upon community, goo.gl is service by google, and bit.ly is very popular with tweeter.

Our fun ends for now with the URL Shorteners, how did it went for you ?

Friday, April 8

simulate your internet speed

Your application is ready, deployed on web servers and running 24/7.

On development environment, everything looked nice & cool, but you get the responses from public, which creates nightmare for developers. "It takes a very Loooooooonnnnnggg time to load the pages of your site.

To, avoid the nightmare of not knowing that you can test your site from various user's perspectives, we are in this post sharing with you the links and things, which can enable you to simulate your internet speed, find out yourself, how fast is your page loading.....

Simulate your internet speed

1) Simulate browser :

1.1) On firefox, use firefox throttle, addon that simulates network speed, which even works for localhost sites
http://www.uselessapplications.com/en/Application/FirefoxThrottle.aspx

1.2) For InternetExplorer / Firefox / Opera, use a proxy plugin known as fiddler :
fiddler works with proxy concept and is found at :
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

1.3) Use charles (shareware)
http://www.charlesproxy.com/


2) Simulate your OS :


2.1) On Ubuntu, you can go for iprelay at :
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/en/man1/iprelay.1.html


2.2) On *nix family OS, you could also try dummynet, details available at :
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/


2.3) On Debian systems you could also try :

$ iprelay -b2500 8000:localhost:80
# Point browser at http://localhost:8000

2.4) For Linux, there is also a tool called netem, you can find more details for netem at :
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem

2.5) For windows, you can try "speed simulator", more details at :
http://www.ngcoders.com/downloads/internet-speed-simulator-proxy-throttler

2.6) For iphone, you can try speed limiter, available at :
http://mschrag.github.com/



You can also try netlimiter at http://www.netlimiter.com/



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