I think it’s safe to say that most people familiar with both Linux and Windows would tell you that your average Linux install would outperform an equivalent Windows install on the same machine. That may not always be the case, and some people might have contradictory stories to share, but that’s sure been this author’s experience. In fact according to Top500.org, about 90% of the world’s top supercomputers are running Linux. While the kernel and OS may lend themselves well to high-performance computing, there are often hardware and software issues on the desktop which can cause major lag. Today, we’ll cover some diagnostic tips and tools to help you figure out where your problem might be.
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Linux Running Too Slow? Here’s How to Find the Cause
By | September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
How to Increase Your Website Security And Performance With CloudFlare
By | June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
How fast is your website loading?
Do you know that Google actually penalizes websites that are slow to load? If you want to get a good search engine ranking, one of the most important thing is to make sure your site load fast, blazingly fast!
If you are running WordPress, we have already mentioned several ways to polish up your site loading speed, including adding Google Analytics site speed tracking feature, lazy loading your images, using W3 Total Cache and minify the code.
One other way is to use CloudFlare as a proxy server.
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How to Improve Your Site’s Performance By Loading Your Images On Demand [WordPress]
By | September 30, 2010 |
There are many ways to improve the performance of your WordPress blog. We have discussed the use of caching plugin, cleaning up and optimizing your database and and also plenty other tips to speed up the loading time. In this article, we are going to show you how you can further improve your site’s performance by loading your images on demand.
All blog owners will know that images play an important part in a blog post. In Make Tech Easier, we love to use plenty of screenshots to make the tutorial clearer and easier to understand. However, there is one problem with this. The more images you have, the slower the site loads and utilizes more bandwidth. In addition, as we have outsourced our images hosting to Amazon S3, the higher bandwidth also translates to higher cost.
A good solution to this is to load your images on demand, or what is most commonly known as lazy loading.
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How to Boost Your Game Performance With Game Booster v2
By | September 12, 2010 |
When it comes to gaming, the hardware may be the most important factor that decide the game’s performance. Give a system more RAM, higher CPU and GPU power and it should tackle effortlessly most of the high-end games in the market. On the other hand, if you are not prepared to shell out the money to upgrade your PC, you can actually improve your gaming performance by tweaking the OS (Windows OS). This is where Game Booster comes in.
Game Booster v2 is another great software by IOBit (the same developer as the IOBit toolbox) and it is designed to help you optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game-play.
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Improve Your WordPress Performance With W3 Total Cache
By | July 21, 2010 |
If there is any plugin that can improve the performance of any WordPress blog by a great deal, it has to be W3 Total Cache. This is a well-designed cache plugin used by many popular sites, as well as this Make Tech Easier blog.
Why the need for a cache plugin?
Whenever you load a page on a WP site, the server has to first query the database for the relevant content, then format the content into html format before sending to the browser for you to see. This is fine if your site only have 10 or 20 visitors per day. However, if you are receiving ten of thousands of readers every day, your CPU workload will also increase exponentially, and eventually crashed. This is also why plenty of sites went down when their post reaches the front page of Digg (aka the Digg effect).
What a cache plugin does is to store the dynamically generated page in a static html format. Whenever a visitor visits your site, the static page is served to the visitors instead of fetching it from the database. In this case, it will relief the workload of your CPU.
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Free Giveaway: Advanced SystemCare Pro
By | May 17, 2010 |
We just received a tip off from IObit that they are celebrating their 5th anniversary and is giving off their Advanced SystemCare PRO Edition for FREE for a limited time.
Advanced SystemCare PRO provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Healthcare Service with anti-spyware, privacy protection, performance tune-ups, and system cleaning capabilities. This powerful and award-winning precision tool fixes stubborn errors, cleans out clutter, optimizes internet and download speeds, ensures personal security and maintains maximum computer performance automatically.
The FREE giveaway is valid from 17th – 19th May 2010. Grab it before the offer ends!
Defragment Your Disk With Auslogics Disk Defrag
By | February 24, 2010 |
If you ask any experts on tips to speed up the performance of your Windows PC, the answer you often receive is “Defragment your hard disk“. The reason for hard disk fragmentation is because whenever you load any files or data into your hard drive, the operating system breaks it into uncountable number of pieces or chunks and store them in the empty spaces in the hard drive. When you try to open that file, the operating system has to gather all the parts and assemble them back to one piece. As more and more files are being split up and stored in various places, the hard disk become very crowded with fragmented parts and more time is needed to retrieve the files.
To fix this fragmentation problem, we need to run the disk defragmentation application where it locates the various parts of a file and arranges them in running order. By default, Windows comes with its own set of defragment tool that anyone can use, but it suffers from some drawbacks such as inability to defragment a single selected file and ignores files that are smaller than 64 MB.
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6 Essential Tips to Speed up Windows 7
By | December 30, 2009 |
Without a doubt, Windows 7 is a much better operating system than its predecessors, but that doesn’t mean it is the speediest of them all. Due to the hardware requirement, those who still have their old computer may not get the same performance as good as they had with Windows XP. Even if the computer comes with all the latest hardware installed, there are still many factors that can substantially slow down the performance. In this article, we are going to show you 6 useful ways to improve the speed and performance of your Windows 7.
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8 Ways To Improve Your WordPress’s Loading Time
By | January 21, 2009 |
If you have been blogging for quite a while, you will find that as your traffic increases, your blog’s loading time become slower and slower. This could be due to inefficient coding, too many images (or advertisement) or just that you have activated too many plugins that take up your valuable server resources. If the above is true for you, then it is time for you to do some spring-cleaning and start to streamline and optimize your site.
Here are 8 ways that you can use to improve your site loading time.
