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Stress Testing – Simple Tools for A Faster Website

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For every second that your website spends loading its data, it loses one more valuable viewer. If you are a person who handles a business through your website or an online portal, that user could have probably been one of your biggest clients, but you will never know because they didn’t want to deal with long load times.

To be honest, it isn’t just that person’s fault. Sure the viewer’s internet speed determines greatly how fast website loads but there’s a lot that can be done on the other end to ensure that people don’t just close the tab before actually looking at your website.

Stress testing is a brilliant way to make sure that your site maintains maximum viewership while keeping efficiency. But stress testing; one can find out how much bandwidth their site can handle. Stress testing is usually conducted by sending multiple requests to the server to observe the limit that the site can handle. However, professional stress testing can be extremely hard to do if you are coding the program it yourself, especially if you aren’t a seasoned programmer. Also, professional stress testing can be extremely expensive. Fortunately, free stress testing software and websites exist to aid you in making your website more efficient and free. However, free services aren’t always enough and you may want to load test your website using a paid service. Some of the free services include tools like HP’s LoadRunner (to an extent), and some of the free tools are things that you can install on your server from companies like Apache.

Services like Web Polygraph provide you with all the necessary tools to test the speed of your site. This service also helps you catch proxies, carries out origin server acceleration and helps you with any additional resources you would need to conduct the stress test.

Being able to test out the server response time efficiently and the bandwidth limits of a website is a highly useful tool in the world of website development. For the amount of time it takes to stress test a website (which isn’t much, to be honest), it’s surely a good tradeoff for some views you will get additionally – solely due to a faster more optimal website.

How Do I Become a Web Developer?

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Web develop is an industry that is rapidly growing in the last few years. However, the term web development is a broad term and if you want to become a web developer, you must know it actually is. A web developer takes the design and vision from a static design (not in action) to a full working website. In order to become a web developer, you must have knowledge of HTML and CSS, they are the building blocks of all web development. Not only will you need to learn these programming languages, but to learn how HTML and CSS work together. HTML which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, sets up the structure on the page and the CSS changes that way the page looks.

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There also many other things that you need to learn besides from HTML and CSS, you need to consider what kind of websites are clients want. For instance, if you build an online store for a client that has a online business, you’ll need to know about e-commerce platform. If one of your clients want a responsive website that adapts to mobile devices, start learning about media queries. If you want to work with WordPress sites, then you’ll need to learn about WordPress themes and PHP, the main language of WordPress. If you find yourself in need of guidance or not sure about something, you have Google to provide a quick answer in regards of web development programming. You can also join forms that talk about HTML, CSS, PHP, or WordPress themes.

One thing that you’ll need to become a web developer is the right tools. You’ll need a PC that you can use for developing, some development software such as Adobe products (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc.) and you’ll also need web hosting to store your files. Depending upon what type of hosting you get, it’s possible that hosting might be the least expensive thing you’ll need as a web developer. Some of the most popular hosting to start with is something like HostGator or Bluehost, which are both awesome companies. They have shared plans that allow people to save money on the cost of hosting by sharing resources on the server instead of having to bear the expense of a dedicated server.

In terms of education, you don’t need to attend college to learn web development at all. Thanks to the internet and various web development courses available, you can learn all of this in one click. There are several online courses that cost pennies compared to the cost of college. Also time, skill, patience, learning new skills, and determination will make you a great web developer.