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How to decrease the crawl rate of Bing’s search engine bot

The MSN bot or BING bot crawls your website to index your website’s content and show the results under the Bing search engine. Bing supports the directives of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) which can be listed in a site’s robots.txt file. The crawl … Continued

How to Stop Crawler and Ghost Spam in Google Analytics

One of the most useful Google Analytics features helps webmasters track the referral URLs, from which people land on their website. Unfortunately spammers utilize this possibility to promote their own websites or damage the image of unrelated companies by inserting … Continued

SEO – General Guide

Basic Understanding Most people understand Search Engine Optimization or SEO as a way to increase the traffic on their site. A better understanding of SEO is the process of optimizing your content in order to be easier to find by … Continued

Is there crawl-delay on SiteGround servers?

We do not apply any default crawl delay directive on our servers. You can decide what crawl-delay, if any, should be applied to your site(s) by editing your robots.txt file. Crawl-delay can be set by adding a line in this file with the following … Continued

Common reasons for a site to load slowly

The time for loading a web site depends mostly on: 1. The number / size of external resources included in the site. 2. Properly resized images to their visible size. 3. The database queries executed while the site loads. Examples: … Continued

How to enable gZIP compression for your pages?

GZIP compression improves the performance of your website and decreases its loading time. When a visitor makes a request for your website, the server compresses the requested page, significantly reducing its size, and transfers it to the customer’s computer. On … Continued

Leverage Browser Caching for Images, CSS and JS

To leverage your browser’s caching generally means that you can specify how long web browsers should keep images, CSS and JS stored locally. That way the user’s browser will download less data while navigating through your pages, which will improve … Continued

How to Leverage Browser Caching

The most important cache mechanism for page speed is browser caching. Most of the static files that are used on web pages can be saved on the computer of your visitor for future access. You can add the following rules … Continued

What are core.xxxxx files

In the document root of your website you may discover large files named core.xxxxx where xxxxx is a random number. These files are called core dumps and could be useful in investigating problems with your website application. There are numerous reasons for … Continued

What does XonHost do to speed up my website?

Speed is essential when it comes to maintaining a website. Not only does it improve the experience of the site’s visitors, but it also helps with search engine standings. XonHost’s servers are built with speed in mind, and hardware is … Continued

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