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Design Systems – A Storybook & React Tutorial

6 min read In this tutorial, I’ll be using one of the most popular frontend tools for building a design system – Storybook. This works really well with React, so I’ll be setting up a React project with an example component and showing you how to integrate Storybook within that.

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Top 10 Visual Studio Code Extensions for Developers in 2021

7 min read Are you a developer? Yes? Great! You’re going to NEED to read this blog. It’s a high-level run through of the top extensions that you should be using in Visual Studio Code. You’re welcome!

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DNS Lookup Explained

3 min read Do you know or understand the importance of DNS? Shaking your head? So few people know the answer, don’t worry. That’s why we’ve gone through it all right here in this blog.

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Why you should focus on page speed & stop using pop-ups

4 min read We recently conducted a poll on LinkedIn about the biggest turn-offs for website visitors. The results? Poor page speed and constant pop-ups are the biggest pet peeves. Find out everything you need to know at the impact of these foes and what you can do to make sure your website isn’t getting a huge bounce rate because of them.

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New Role – SysAdmin Wanted

2 min read Check out our new roles by visiting our roles including SysAdmin wanted and more to come with our ever expanding team!

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Integration Spotlight – VictorOps

< 1 min read Read all about our latest integration with VictorOps and want it means for your website monitoring needs and how to use it!

The Impact of Website Downtime on SEO

3 min read When your website goes offline there are many factors for you to consider as a priority, such as the loss in traffic and sales and/or leads.

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New Role – Go Developer Wanted

2 min read Find out about the latest role that we’re hiring for here at StatusCake – the Go Developer role and all of the others we have open!

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New Role – PHP Developer Wanted

2 min read Find out everything you need to know about our PHP developer vacancy here at StatusCake in this blog article!

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Integration Spotlight – VictorOps

< 1 min read See our latest integration with StatusCake spotlight with Victorops. Find out everything you need to know in this how to guide!

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Lessons Learned From Amazon’s S3 Outage

2 min read Over 150,000 businesses rely on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) for backend cloud-based services for their websites. In March of this year, many of those businesses found out how dependent they were on the cloud when Amazon S3 experienced an outage for almost four hours. Many websites slowed to a crawl and some were unable

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Google to Implement Mobile-First Indexing

2 min read Google will implement mobile-first indexing incrementally over the coming months, so you have enough time to get your site ready. Upgrade your site using a responsive design that automatically adjusts to display properly on both desktops and mobile devices. Test your new site thoroughly before launching, and verify that Google’s search bot can index your mobile site.

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Lesson Learned From Major Website Outages

2 min read Monitor your website traffic. If it’s steadily growing, be sure you have the capacity to handle future growth. Traffic growth can be unpredictable. A favorable review of your company and its services could cause a spike in traffic, and your site could go down if you’re not equipped to handle it.

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New Role – Developer

2 min read As a developer you will be responsible, initially, for assisting with technical customer support. This grounding will help you understand how we work as a team, and give you the best possible understanding of our product, code base and customers. The scope of the role will increase once the right candidate has a good knowledge of this.

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StatusCake – Monitoring Website Uptime 24/7 365 Days a Year

2 min read If you’re a website owner you’ll know the importance of monitoring site uptime 24/7 365 days a year. StatusCake.com is the only provider of uptime monitoring software that allows you to monitor an unlimited number of websites or URLS completely free of charge with our global network of monitoring centres checking for downtime every 5

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JavaScript Error Logging

< 1 min read Alerting you to your website’s downtime is something that StatusCake.com does a great job of.  We’re great at monitoring but that’s not the whole story.  As a website owner you want to know much more than just uptime / downtime surely? What about the full user experience – what do visitors to your website see? Are all your scripts running as they should – and if not what are the issues?

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Changes in Testing Method

< 1 min read Until now we have counted response time as the amount of time taken to load the basic content on the page – that is to say the HTML. From today we will be monitoring total load time in a standardized  environment.  This means not only will we be downloading the HTML from your website but all images, CSS and JavaScript.  This method far better simulates the response time an average user would find going to your website.

Want to know how much website downtime costs, and the impact it can have on your business?

Find out everything you need to know in our new uptime monitoring whitepaper 2021

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