Tracking rendering performance and frames per second out in the wild is a challenge for developers, but it looks like Paul wants to tell Jake about a proposed API that could help out. And to make matters even better Jake has some… interesting travel tips!
Chapman’s Electrical in Cradley Heath gets a 360 virtual tour allowing customers to visit the store from the comfort of there home.
Chapman’s Electrical, 112-119 Reddal Hill Road, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64 5JN
Tel:- 01384 566497
Curborough Sprint Course get some Chameleon magic making them the first track / circuit in the UK with a full 360 Virtual Tour.
Address: Netherstowe Ln, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 8EJ
Phone:01543 432607
We have been carrying out analysis over the last few days looking at hosting speed and code ensuring that we are using the best methods to build sites to help increase the speed of the Internet.
This analysis started life with this post “The Web Should Be Fast” which we published 4th November 2014.
We have been looking deeper into the realms of speeding up the way websites are delivered and looking for small improvements to help serve site files better.
There are various ways to increase the speed of your website and this starts at the hosting level. The hosting should be the correct level of hosting to serve the purpose and as an example a shared hosting costing £3.99 per month running a Magento website is going to be slow and not only will this website be slow, but probably every other website on the same hosting server.
If you require a website to be responsive and the platform is heavy such as Magento then you need to purchase hosting that is designed to cope and this will increase costs, but generally speaking the costs are small. OpenCart is a good platform that uses less resources and we have seen huge sites built on this platform be very quick on affordable hosting.
If you are using WordPress then shared hosting is fine due to WordPress being light on the resource requirements. With platforms like WordPress there are various plugins that can really help increase speed using things like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache. These both are used as WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) frameworks that have been designed to improve page speed using Mod_Rewrite and Caching. This is the fastest method of serving pages using Apache mod_rewrite making websites load much quicker and thus improve the user experience.
Website Server Speed Testing
We carried out testing comparing Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, Ebay, Apple & AOL and since this testing we have carried out a couple of tweaks to improve things and we have re-tested and the results are pretty amazing.
The testing is using the following URLs www.chameleonwebservices.co.uk, www.facebook.com, www.microsoft.com & www.adobe.com.
The results of this latest test show we have really stood strong against the tough competition.
We still needed to compare against Ebay, Apple and AOL to see how we do this time.
The testing is using the following URLs www.chameleonwebservices.co.uk, www.ebay.com, www.apple.com & www.aol.com.
These test results are great for us and we can be proud of what we have achieved.
Hosting Speed & Coding Test using GT Metrix
We recently got involved creating a video to highlight the importance of safety for amateur racing drivers following a horrible crash at Cadwell Park involving Darren Langeveld and his racing Clio Cup 172 Racing Car.
The video went live 03/11/2014 and has already achieved over 100,000 views on YouTube and this is growing buy the hour.
This video seems to have hit home the importance of safety but also has angered the motorsport drivers and fans.
After the accident we were all just glad to see Darren O.K even with minor injuries, but after a short while a discussion was had about what to do with all the footage.
The car was scrap which was a great waste but perhaps it could have one more use so it was decided a film had to be made.
It would have been easy to produce a quick and not very slick name and shame campaign but the chance to perhaps save a few future lives seemed too good to miss.
Darren’s script was written and edited to be mostly positive and lean heavily towards safety and the joys of motorsport.
A lot of people had generously helped prepared the car and provide assistance with parts and so on. It only seemed right to thank them too.
On the day of the accident, I had done a lot of filming for fun so there was plenty of source material to work with.
The extra presenting and narration filming was taken in Aarons Autos garage next to the damaged car.
The setup was described to look from CCTV like something from the “War Of The Worlds”.
To be honest, when the final edit was completed everyone agreed it was a nice little safety video.
No-one had any idea how good response was going to be, it’s all a little shocking see all the threads and comments around the internet.
After the dust has settled, no-one will have made any money but if a few racers this year buy a HANS device after watching this video that’s fine by me.
Let’s hope next year’s racing season goes better for everyone and lessons have been learned.
