Speed Up Firefox

12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband
connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your
page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at
once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup
connections). Here’s how:

• Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type
  network.http in the filter field, and change the following settings
  (double-click on them to change them):
• Set network.http.pipelining to true
• Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
• Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
• network.dns.disableIPv6 to “true”
• Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it
  nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is
  the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it
  receives.

13) Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much
memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed
to us. Again, go to about:config, filterbrowser.cache and select
browser.cache.disk.capacity. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it,
depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between
512MB and 1GB ram.

14) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized.
This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it,
taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in
speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again,
go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean.
Name it config.trim_on_minimize and set it to TRUE. You have to
restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.

15) Move or remove the close tab button. Do you
accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move
them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference
for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

• 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
• 1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
• 2:Don’t display any close buttons
• 3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

Ranking factors

Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2007:

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag (4.9)
2. Global Link Popularity of Site (4.5)
3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link (4.4)
4. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure (4.1)
5. Age of Site (4)
6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site (3.9)
7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.9)
8. Keyword Use in Body Text (3.9)
9. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site (3.7)
10. Topical Relationship of Linking Page (3.6)

All Website Statistic That Are Publicly Available

Article from Seomoz

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-list-of-every-website-statistic-publicly-available

Admitedly, this is an ambitious list, but it’s also a worthwhile
one. Below, I’ve attempted to lay the foundation for every piece of
website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious.
Competitive analysis experts, welcome to data paradise:

Technical Data

• IP Address – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 204.15.225.178)
• Other Sites on an IP Address – via IP Query at Live.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz’s – 204.15.225.178)
• Server Type – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – Apache)
• Response Time – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 5.78ms)
• Name Server – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – dns1.dedicatedns.com)
• W3C Validation – via W3C Markup Validator
  (e.g. SEOmoz – we passed!)
• CSS Validation – via W3C CSS Validator
  (e.g. SEOmoz – validates)
• Speed Report – via WebsiteOptimization.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz, 23.44 seconds @ 56K – sadly, you can’t link directly to these)
• Use of Text – via Ranks.nl KW Density Checker
  (e.g.
  SEOmoz’s homepage has 662 total words, 336 uniques and “seo” is the
  most common, again you can’t link directly to these pages; note – I’m
  not endorsing KW Density; I just appreciate their tool)
• HTTP Headers Response – via Web Sniffer
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 200 OK)

Ownership/Hosting Data

• Whois Data (registrant, registration date, contacts, etc.) – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz)
• Additional Sites Owned/Registered – via DomainTools Search and Alexa
  (e.g. SEOmoz @ DomainTools & SEOmoz @ Alexa)
• SSL Certificates Issued – via DomainTools Search
• IP History – via DomainTools Search
• Hosting History – via Netcraft
• Whois History – via DomainTools Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz)

Statistics/Popularity Data

• Alexa Rank – via Alexa
  (e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 864th most popular site)
• Alexa Reach – via Alexa
  (e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 1395 per million users)
• Alexa Page Views Estimate – via Alexa
  (e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa – 2.7 per user)
• Google Trends Data – via Google Trends
  (e.g. SEOmoz – no data; only available for highly searched-for domains)
• Compete Snapshot – via Compete.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 5854 visitors in August, ranked #204,215th most popular site; no direct linking in)
• Ranking.com Rank – via Ranking.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 26,741st most popular site)
• Netcraft Ranking – via Netcraft
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 20,319th most popular site)
• Bloglines Subscribers – via Bloglines Feed Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 448 subscribers)

Search Engine Indexing Data

• Google’s Indexed Pages – via Google site: command
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 18,400 pages)
• Yahoo! Pages Indexed – via Yahoo! Site Explorer
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 5,432 pages)
• MSN Pages Indexed – via Live.com site: command
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 11,416 pages)
• Ask.com Pages Indexed – via Ask
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 362; note that this requires an additional term in the query to return results)
• Gigablast Pages Indexed – via Gigablast Advanced Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 1 page)
• Exalead Pages Indexed – via Exalead
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 5,481 pages)
• Clusty Pages Indexed – via Clusty Advanced Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 5,867 pages)
• How this Site Looked in the Past – via Wayback Machine
  (e.g. SEOmoz – all the way back from February of 2005)

Link Data

• Yahoo! Link Data – via Yahoo! Site Explorer
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 187,234 external links)
• Technorati Link Data – via Technorati
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 8,961 links from 2,541 blogs)
• MSN Link Data – via Live.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 107,512 external links)
• Google Link Data – via Google (note that this information is purposefully inaccurate)
  (e.g. SEOmoz – a uselessly erroneous 2,370 links)
• Google PageRank – via RankAlert (shows for all 72 datacenters)
  (e.g. SEOmoz – PR 5/10 or 6/10 depending on DC)
• Exalead Links – via Exalead
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 4,308 external links)

Social Tagging Data

• Bookmarks at Del.icio.us – via Del.icio.us
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 31 pages, thousands of bookmarks)
• Pages in StumbleUpon – via StumbleUpon Reviews
  (e.g. SEOmoz)
• Mentions at Digg – via Digg Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 50+)
• Mentions at Reddit – via Reddit Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 21)
• Mentions at Tailrank – via Tailrank Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz –
• Mentions at Newsvine – via Newsvine
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 1)

Third-Party Trust Metrics

• TrustGauge Rank – via TrustGauge
• Better Business Bureau Listings – via BBBOnline.org
• Truste Sealholders – via Truste Member List (sadly, no search function)

Important Directory & Site Listings

• Listings in the Open Directory Project – via DMOZ
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 3)
• Listings in Wikipedia – via Wikipedia Search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 12)
• Listings in the Yahoo! Directory – via dir.yahoo.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 1)
• Listings in MSN’s bCentral – via bCentral
• Listings in Business.com – via Google Search (as Business.com has none of their own)
• Links in Google Groups – via Groups.Google.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 134)

Press & Media Mentions

• Listings in Google News – via news.google.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz –
• Listings in Google News Archive – via archive search
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 58)
• Listings in Yahoo! News – via news.yahoo.com
  (e.g. SEOmoz – 13)

Web design/ CSS galleries

Bellow is a list of all the web design galleries I could find. Each gallery has different requirement to enter a design from CSS, tabless W3C compliant to having to be green. This is suppose to be a reasonably comprehensive list in alphabetical order, if I have missed any out please comment (with the URL) at the bottom and I will add it asap.

When I get round to it i’ll make my favorite list with reviews and something or other. Please enjoy.

1. Artnetz
2. Alvit
3. Best Web Gallery
4. BRDCAST
5. CeeSeS
6. Cool Home Pages
7. Cool Site Collection
8. Creative Pakistan
9. CSS Website
10. CSS 11
11. CSS Based
12. CSS Blast
13. CSS Bloom
14. CSS Brain
15. CSS Beauty
16. CSS Clip
17. CSS Collection
18. CSS Container
19. CSS Coo Site
20. CSS Cool
21. CSS Demo
22. CSS Design
23. CSS Design Yorkshire
24. CSS Drive
25. CSS Elite
26. CSS Flavor
27. CSS Galaxy
28. CSS Galeri
29. CSS Galerie
30. CSS Galerie
31. CSS Galerie
32. CSS Gallery
33. CSS Globe
34. CSS Green
35. CSS hardcore
36. CSS Hazard
37. CSS Heaven
38. CSS Import
39. CSS Impress
40. CSS Inspirace
41. CSS Love
42. CSS Mania
43. CSS Mess
44. CSS Princess
45. CSS Reboot
46. CSS Remix
47. CSS Showcase
48. CSS Smooth Operator
49. CSS Thesis
50. CSS Tux
51. CSS Vault
52. CSS Web Designers
53. CSS Zen Garden
54. CSS-Galleries
55. CSS Genius
56. Dark Eye
57. Dekiteharu
58. De Web Times
59. Design Link Database
60. Design Meltdown
61. Design Shack
62. Design Snack
63. Design Beauty
64. Dev Home
65. E-Motional Design
66. Easy Share CSS Beauty
67. Edu Style
68. Frog Family Standards
69. Full Single
70. Inspiration King
71. Light on Dark
72. Liquid Designs
73. Lovely Blogs
74. Menthe Fresh
75. Moderni Web
76. Morpheed CSS
77. Most Inspired
78. najDizajn
79. Nearly Nice
80. Netcocktail
81. Netzfruehling
82. One Pixel Army
83. Perfection
84. Piep Matzel
85. Pixelgangster
86. ProWebArt
87. Screen Fluent
88. Screenalicio.us
89. Screenspire
90. Showcase
91. Standards Reboot
92. Style Crunch
93. Style Grind
94. Style The Web
95. Styleboost
96. Stylegala
97. Submit CSS
98. The Best Designs
99. The Daily Slurp
100. The Horizontal Way
101. Unmatched Style
102. W3 Compliant Sites
103. W3C Compliance
104. Wake up Gallery
105. We Creative
106. Web Design Book
107. Web Design Galleries
108. Web Design Inspiration
109. Web Gallery
110. Web Standards Awards
111. Web Standards in Germany
112. Web Test
113. Webdesign Awards
114. Webdesign Inspiration
115. Webdigity Design Gallery
116. Well Designed CSS Sites
117. Well Done Sites
118. Well-Designed Weblogs
119. With style
120. Wow Factor

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WordPress Database Backup Plugin 2.0.5 not working

The backup file could not be saved. Please check the permissions for writing to your backup directory and try again

Right here was my problem:

“I am also having the issue with the wp-db-backup plugin. I’m running version WordPress v2.1.3 and wp-db-backup v2.0.5, i have ensured that wp-contents folder is chmod 777 but still get the javascript error “The backup file could not be saved. Please check the permissions for writing to your backup directory and try again“.”

If you have done everything correctly, ie change file permissions and checked there is no conflicting plugins then the reason is likely to be the same as mine.

Check you php.ini file – If php safe mode is on turn it off.

If you can’t access your php.ini file, you might be able to create one in your directory or alternatively ask your web hosting company. You may only be able to edit it through SSH in which case read my article on SSH commands and VI commands.

If you have access to your domain through a plesk control panel sometimes you can turn it off in the domain setup page. When you add a new domain to the server and tick the php box, the php safe mode box is automatically turn on.