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By StatusCake Team
short-reads
How to Reduce Bounce Rate
5 min read Learn what bounce rate is and how it is measured, what a good bounce rate looks like, and the actionable steps you can take to improve the bounce rate on your website.
StatusCake Team
September 3, 2020
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What Causes Website Downtime?
3 min read Website downtime no longer needs to be this big mystery that keeps you up at night. Here are the top causes for website downtime AND how to fix them.
StatusCake Team
August 22, 2020
short-reads
Over 40% of Online Advertisements are Too Large and Slow Down Websites
2 min read Large ads have been a major issue with online publishers who have been struggling with how to curtail what many call “fat ads.” The oversized ads have a major impact on the ability of website visitors to see them as they can’t view them if they don’t load properly.
StatusCake Team
August 20, 2020
Engineering
Google Always Checks Status Codes Before Crawling Your Site
< 1 min read Given the important of rendering content and indexing it in Google website owners should ensure that their website is giving a correct status code at all times.
StatusCake Team
August 15, 2020
Product & Updates
The Importance of an SSL Certificate
2 min read Website visitors want assurances that a website is secure before they decide to access it, and an SSL certificate issued by a certificate authority provides online businesses with the ability to assure visitors that the site is safe.
StatusCake Team
August 14, 2020
short-reads
The Most Expensive Website Downtime Periods in History
4 min read An extended period of website downtime is the stuff of nightmares for companies large and small. For a company such as Amazon, even one single minute of downtime can cost as much as $220,318.80 according to the latest calculations. For smaller companies, that figure will be minuscule in comparison, but it’s a number which can quickly snowball the longer your website is offline.
StatusCake Team
July 28, 2020
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.EU Domains in a Post-Brexit Britain
2 min read The .eu top level domain, TLD, is run within an EU framework and the right to register and own a .eu domain name is subject to eligibility criteria – in short, being an EU citizen, or being a company established in the EU. For British citizens and companies in post-Brexit they’ll no longer meet the criteria to register, or indeed continue to own their .eu domains.
StatusCake Team
July 26, 2020
How To
5 Ways to Optimise Your Site for Mobile
4 min read An optimised mobile site is crucial to any business hoping to maximise the value in its website traffic. So how can you optimise your website for mobile?
StatusCake Team
June 28, 2020
The Cost of Website Downtime
3 min read With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just behind us and the Christmas and January sales on the horizon, the cost of downtime is a question that should be of concern to all business owners and e-commerce managers. It should be a concern, but is website downtime always given the consideration it deserves in your business?
StatusCake Team
May 12, 2020
How to Reduce Website Downtime
3 min read You are probably well aware of the negative impact downtime can have on your website and your company as a whole. Any period of downtime can quickly result in lost sales and leads, a factor which multiplies depending on the average traffic your website usually receives. What’s worse is that those lost sales and leads
StatusCake Team
April 6, 2020