Tracking visitor behavior in Google Analytics is more useful than you can imagine, essentially turning your users into sets of user group tests. However, to get the best insights you have to tell it what to test for. Here we’ll be showing you how to track visitor behavior in Google Analytics. An Overview of Customer… Read more »
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WordPress Retina Display: Get Your Site Ready
If you’re as big an Apple fan as I am (like most of the ZippyKid team), you were probably excited to hear about the latest announcement from WWDC bringing the retina display to the MacBook Pro. Vid, our fearless founder and Apple fanboy, even picked up a retina capable MBP the day after the announcement…. Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
MySQL 5.5 GA launchd issues with Snow Leopard
I did a clean install on my Macbook Pro this morning, part of the clean install means, re-downloading things like MySQL. When I installed it, I noticed that the pref-pane wouldn’t start MySQL. Even when it asked for my admin password. I thought maybe it was a boot up issue, so I rebooted, and got… Read more »
How to test your WordPress Cache
The images above show you how to analyze the effectiveness of your cache. Our previous post on How to make WordPress Fastertalked about caching static content, using Mod Pagespeed, and Nginx. The question becomes, how do you measure the effectiveness of your cache? Turns out it’s fairly easy with Safari. If you look at the… Read more »
How to make WordPress faster without the use of a plugin
When it comes to web page load time, she should always say “wow, that was fast”. A Quick update based on Frederick’s comment below ** Please do not take these tips as THE answer, this is a complement, not a replacement. I have purposely not given specifics on how to configure anything, or what value… Read more »
Buy this today.
I’m not one to tell people what music they should buy, my tastes are usually very different.. something about this Soundtrack has compelled me to make this recommendation. It’s an Amazon Daily Deal, it’s $3.99, it costs less than your venti caramel frou frou… if you’re a fan of Tron, Snowcrash, Hackers.. you’ll love this… Read more »
Using font-face with a CDN and Firefox
We experienced an interesting issue for one of our customers today. The fonts they had specified using the @font-face technique, would not render in Firefox. The fonts would show up fine in Chrome, Safari, and IE, but in Firefox 3.5 the fonts would not render. After doing some research, and talking to Jake Smith and… Read more »
We're Hiring – 1 Easy way to make Christmas money.
ZippyKid is a WordPress Hosting company, we host websites for small businesses, and A-list bloggers. What differentiates us is that we use WordPress exclusively, and we manage the entire process for our customers. You’ll rarely need to teach someone how to FTP, you’ll be doing the changes for them, or you’ll be making the changes… Read more »
Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.
I was curious if anyone has any experience with Multivariate (A/B) testing with PHP Frameworks. I found http://phpabtest.com/ yesterday, but I haven’t heard of anyone using it in production yet. Nor have I been able to gather how easily or well it integrates with Symfony, or other frameworks that introduce some level of caching. Here’s what… Read more »
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