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How to Make Your Website More User Friendly

With the internet being as popular and wildly competitive as it is, successful websites need to be cleverly designed and user friendly. A user friendly website will attract visitors and keep them coming back for more. If you have a website that could use a little help in becoming more user friendly, the following tips can help.

Set Goals

Before you constructed your website, you should have had a clear idea as to what your website’s purpose was going to be. If you are a site that is informative, remember to keep it that way and avoid adding content that doesn’t pertain to your original purpose. If your site exists to sell a product, make it easy for your visitors to find and purchase that product. You should have goals for your website in the back of your mind at all times. This will help keep your website user friendly and to the point.

Faster Web with Google mod_pagespeed Module for Apache

Google, on it’s initiative “Make the web faster”,  introduced a new module for the Apache HTTP Server called mod_pagespeed to speed up the websites and improve search experience of users. The tool works on the server so directly improves the loading time of the webpages.

Last year, Google introduced a tool that gives suggestions to developers to speed up web pages called Page Speed.  Page speed can be helpful tool to monitor the backfalls of your website but it needs a lot of effort to implement necessary suggestions about server configuration, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and images. mod_pagespeed automates many of Page Speed recommedations and delivers automated SEO with minimal developer and webmaster effort.

So today, we’re introducing a module for the Apache HTTP Server called mod_pagespeed to perform many speed optimizations automatically. We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance, including optimizing caching, minimizing client-server round trips and minimizing payload size. We’ve seen mod_pagespeed reduce page load times by up to 50% (an average across a rough sample of sites we tried) — in other words, essentially speeding up websites by about 2x, and sometimes even faster.

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