December 2007

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Web search
Keep the visitors on your site and reduce the bounce rate
12.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

My news aggregation site receives a lot of traffic from Google, which is great of course. Most of the hits from Google comes from the long tail for various keywords and usually don’t hit the homepage or some of the main categories but some secondary pages. Unfortunately, lots of users from those hits don’t hang […]
Caching, MySQL
How to improve MySQL query cache hit ratio
12.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I have already mentioned one of the downside of MySQL query cache, query invalidation. Each time when you insert/update/delete records from the table, cached queries from that table will be invalidated even if the edited records are not in the cached subset.
The simple way to improve MySQL query cache hit ratio is not to update […]
Caching, MySQL
MySQL query cache
12.09.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

On the Internet, caching is everything. Domain name servers cache your DNS records, proxies and browsers tries to cache your content, your’s server’s OS cache frequently used files into the memory… Although these are all different types of caching, they all have one thing in common, they improves overall performance of the system.
If you want […]
PageTracer
Hello world!
12.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Hello everybody. PageTracer is the blog where I will try to share my webmaster experience with the others. As you can see, the description of this blog is “webmasters mashup” because I will try to cover wide range of topics which you might be interested in like web development, server administration, site promotion, seo, monetization […]