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Writing alternative texts for images correctly? First aid tips from the website gardeners

For many hobby gardeners, terms like "alt attribute" or "alt tag" cause headaches. But don't worry, it's not that complicated! The website gardeners explain what is behind it: "Alt" stands for alternative; the German word "Attribut" or English "tag" means addition. What is meant [...]Read

Pagespeed: Fast pages are as important as ever

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List of measures for optimising loading times of mobile pages

This article contains a list of measures you can take yourself to make your site load faster. A fast website is another factor to get a better ranking in Google. Read

A clock. It could also measure website loading times.

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Pagespeed and user-friendliness: Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor

Increasingly, so-called experience factors, i.e. user-friendliness parameters, are playing a decisive role in Google's ranking. In particular, the Core Web Vitals, a series of measured values for the loading time of websites, are being taken more into account. Thus, beyond the content of the respective homepage, another purely technical factor, the loading time, is moving into the centre of attention.Read

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Pagespeed analysis made easy - measure the loading time of my homepage with one mouse click

Pagespeed, the loading time of a website, is a topic that is once again gaining importance in the development and operation of websites. Last but not least, Google, as probably the most important search engine provider, never tires of emphasising the importance of short loading times for the ranking. In order to be able to optimise the loading time, meaningful measurement methods are first necessary.Read

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Access data under control

Convenience in dealing with access data and passwords often leads to security risks. Yet secure solutions are not that difficult.Read

Dwarves queue up like Wordpress updates - hopefully in the right order

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Sequence for WordPress updates

For the secure operation of a Wordpress site, it is necessary to regularly update both the basic system and the extensions. For reasons of operational safety, it is advisable to follow a certain sequence of steps.Read

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Where the homepages are at home

Our server partner IP-Projects recently published some interesting insights into their data centre in their blog. Since IP-Projects' server farm also hosts our customers' websites, we would like to share these insights with you.Read

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Why hosting always means management and managed hosting is sometimes simply better

Managed hosting means that a service provider takes care of the entire hosting process and automatically carries out those maintenance tasks in the background that mean you are spared cryptic requests from your hoster - and protected from scenarios like this ...Read

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Why WordPress as CMS?

WordPress is the most widely used CMS system in the world. There are thousands and thousands (no exaggeration) of papers on the internet dealing with the architecture and extensions of this system. Here are the advantages from the point of view of an SME or small organisation.Read