#DNS Server not responding

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DNS Server Not Responding [Complete Guide]

DNS converts human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses. Users may view websites faster using web browsers. IP addresses allow massive retail website servers to interact with each other and all other internet-connected devices, including your phone and laptop. Visitors to websites may notice DNS problem messages like “DNS server not responding.” This article will guide Mac and…

[montdigital1]

DNS server is not responding?

The DNS Server Is Not Responding Error

DNS is an integral part of the internet and translates domain names into IP addresses, allowing you to access websites by typing easy-to-remember words or numbers. But sometimes the server stops responding and you’re stuck with an annoying error message.

This article will explain what the problem is and how to fix it. We will explore some of the most effective methods including restarting your router, flushing DNS cache, and disabling software like antivirus or firewalls.

Restart your router or modem

The DNS (Domain Name System) is essentially the Internet’s phone book, matching easily memorized website names to their corresponding IP addresses. The entire process of querying various servers takes a fraction of a second and is imperceptible to users.

Each computer or device that connects to the Internet has a DNS server setting at either the operating system level or the router level. The latter is more important because it dictates which DNS servers all devices on a network use for Internet access.

The operating system level setting is called a DNS resolver; when a user enters a website address into their browser, the recursive resolver sends a request to the network to find out what the actual IP address is for that site. The resolver then caches the answer for future use and hands it back to the software that entered the name.

Refresh your browser’s cache

When you see this error, it usually means that your computer or browser can’t reach the DNS servers. This could be because of a variety of different reasons, including malware or a faulty router.

One of the quickest ways to find out what’s causing this issue is to use another device to connect to the internet. If you can visit the website on another device, it indicates that the problem is with your computer or browser.

Occasionally, your DNS cache can get outdated. To resolve this, you need to flush your DNS cache. This process is similar to clearing your browser’s cache but it resets the IP addresses instead of deleting your web pages. To do this, follow the steps below for your operating system.

Try a different browser

One of the quickest ways to troubleshoot DNS issues is to use a different browser. If the website loads without error in another browser, it is likely that the problem is local to your device and not a result of an Internet or DNS server outage.

To make sure the issue is not with your network connection, try accessing the site using a mobile data connection. This will help you to determine whether the problem is with your browser or your home Wi-Fi.

If you’re able to load the site using a different browser but still see the “DNS Server is not responding” error, it could be that your antivirus or firewall program is interfering with your internet connection. If this is the case, temporarily deactivating your firewall or antivirus program should allow you to navigate the web normally. This will also help you to clear any DNS cache that may be causing the issue.

Reconnect your modem or router

When you try to load a website and are met with the “DNS Server Not Responding” error message, it can be extremely frustrating. However, the good news is that most of these errors have simple solutions.

You can usually fix this problem by restarting your router or modem. Simply unplug the device and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it back in. Then, try opening the website again. If this doesn’t work, try using another device to access the internet (like a mobile phone on Wi-Fi or ethernet cable).

You can also use a command prompt to flush your DNS cache. This will clear IP addresses and other DNS related data from your computer’s cache, which may help resolve the “DNS server is not responding” error. To do this, open a command prompt by pressing the Win key and typing cmd. Then, type ipconfig /flushness and press enter.

[dyslexic-batman]

hello!! I make templates!(mainly for discord) And gather F2U decor! Take a look! this gives me something to do and gives you (hopefully) what you're looking for! (Byi/dni & template boundaries below the cut)

Here's the request template

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Template requests are open

Png requests are open

SimplyPlural/Rentry flag requests are open

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[I WILL NOT MAKE AN ENTIRE SERVER FOR FREE]

(Unfortunately i will not make full bundle packs for free either. ie. entire layouts for SP: custom fields, profiles, groups, custom front, channels, privacy buckets etc. This takes a LOT of time for me to make, and even longer to fix little details.)

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[garecc]

What is word steam?

Word steam is a company that makes "ai generated" audio books. Many of the "audiobooks" on their website are in fact, fanfictions scraped from ao3 and reuploaded without the authors concent.

How do I check if mine has been uploaded?

Go to the website and search your pen name, or your fandom name. I found many popular magnus archives fanfics for example when breifly searching.

*****WEBSITE IS DOWN, FOR NOW.*****

Legally, what next?

Well, OTW legal has been informed of the situation and so far as i can tell, have not responded yet. Equally unfortunately, the creator of the website has responded and...

I will let you all be the judge of these responses:

Reddit:

Hey everybody, the person behind word stream here: I am dyslexic and built word stream to help other students like me who have dyslexia, ADHD, vision challenges, concussions, or anxiety to access fan-fiction, because for us, reading with our eyes can be very challenging and there are no audiobooks for fan fiction typically.  Word Stream is free for anyone to use. There is a paid plan for ppl who want to use high quality text to speech which is priced at the minimum amount we can to cover server/gpu costs to power the text to speech. The next iteration will also include free text to speech but with a lower quality bar. I apologize to anyone who saw this and was upset this in no way is our intention. We support all valid take down notices and will always make it right if you reach out to us with the name of your work. support@word-stream.com Please email me if we have a peace of work that is yours  you don't want up there and I will take it down immediately support@word-stream.com A future release will also add the ability to tip authors so writers can make money not from selling the works but via tips from grateful readers, the ability for authors to build and communicate with an email list of readers, ability for authors to see retention graphs of where users drop off during reading, and abilities to authors to easily manage their works. We are strong supporters of  second language learners (non native speakers of English), and of users who love fan fiction but who have a job that makes their hands/eyes busy but ears free. Once again I apologize for a beta product that got more attention that it had any right to before it was complete and for the clearly tone deaf wording which we are fixing to make sure communication is better about take down notices. Warmly, Cliff 

Tumblr: from @cliffweitzman

(in a reply) Hey everybody, the person behind word stream here. Please email me if we have a peace of work that is yours you don't want up there and I will take it down immediately support@word-stream.com I am dyslexic and built word stream to help other students like me who have dyslexia, adhd, low vision, concussions, anxiety, who are second language learners, or who also love listening to fan fiction but have a job that makes their hands/eyes busy but ears free. Word Stream is free for anyone to use. The next iteration will also include free text to speech, we have a paid tier for ppl who want to use high quality text to speech which is priced at the minimum amount we can to cover server/gpu costs to power the text to speech. (in a reply to a reply) I apologize to anyone who saw this and was upset this in no way is our intention. We support all valid take down notices and will always make it right if you reach out to us with the name of your work. support@word-stream.com

In these messages, it says to email "support@word-stream.com" - i would caution anyone from doing this immediately, and perhaps wait for OTW Legal to respond to the situation.

you can ALSO file a takedown, which other people in the word steam tag have explained how to do

as writing this, the website is down because of a dns error. i dont really know what that means.

when/if the website goes back up, i HIGHLY recommend checking to see if your fic has been reuploaded.

[vamphorica]

hello hello! So sorry if I'm bothering you at all, but I've been following your work for a bit and I like it a lt a lot, especially the analysis posts! I've never written DN (or Mello) fanfic before, but I really want to try, except I rarely share my writing and I'm very scared of mischaricterizing characters

I feel like the concepts I'm working on should be explored but I don't think I'm the right person to do it, which is why I end up not finishing anything.. you've written so many good pieces, do you have any tips to ease this anxiety?

hello anon! first things first, you are absolutely not bothering me at all - i love receiving asks, particularly anything related to writing. thank you so much for reaching out, and i really do appreciate the kind words :)

writing anxiety is really difficult, especially when you're trying something new for the first time. i'm currently writing my first multi-chaptered fic and it can be so tricky when you're overwhelmed by the nuances of characters and the scenarios that they find themselves in. i think a lot of writing advice that goes along the lines of "write the fic you want to read!" or "enjoy the process!" is very well meaning, but doesn't necessarily take into account that you not only need the confidence to believe in what you're writing, but the resilience to continue once you have begun.

it sounds like sharing your work and characterisation are two of your main concerns, so i will offer some advice regarding both of these, which i hope will help!

sharing your work is always a very vulnerable experience, and remember that you are under no obligation to share anything before you feel it is ready. i have several notebooks i use to write, but many of them will never be seen by anyone other than myself. however, with that being said, i do strongly believe that one of the best things to have helped me in my writing is to have a trusted network of people with whom i can share my work with before publishing. this was terrifying when i had to start doing it for university (i studied creative writing) and there is most certainly something to be said about sharing early drafts with the right people. i won't derail by talking about how to accept criticism, but if you find people who you know believe in your project, and want to see it at its best, these will be the best beta readers. it could be someone not familiar with the fandom, for a less subjective approach, or a discord server of other fans and writers who have their own interpretations and ideas about the characters. i appreciate finding these people is difficult, and you don't want to be judged for something you are putting so much love into, but again, the right people will not be ones who tear your work to shreds. if it is constructive then it will encourage you to keep working on the project, it just requires pushing through that initial discomfort of exposing your work in its early stages.

for what it is worth, anon, my inbox is always open if you want to share any ideas, but there is absolutely no pressure ♡

i have some good news about characterisation, especially when it comes to writing fanfiction - you are already invested enough in the character to want to write about them. this means that there are aspects to this character - Mello, in this case - that have attracted you to explore through writing. use these attributes as your starting point. what is it about him that is so interesting to you? how does he respond to the environment you want to place him in? why would he behave in that manner? notice here something important - this is about you, the writer, and your perception of the character. there is no need to justify to anyone the decisions you have made in writing him, so long as you feel it reflects your own ideas about who he is.

what you may want to consider is how to flesh this interpretation of his character out, so as to have enough material to work with. you want to know your character well enough that he begins to tell his own story. there are two avenues to doing this, one of which i only recently started doing myself but has helped greatly.

firstly, going over the canon text again, and doing a little bit of note taking and analysis. don't go too over the top, but any interesting mannerisms, speech quirks, habits, that you like and want to integrate into your own work, highlight and keep a record of. say what you will about death note, every character has a lot of complexities that although might feel overwhelming initially, can be really fun to delve into. you are also allowed to dismiss canon as well - do not feel as though you must rely on it for perfect characterisation, otherwise you will probably end up feeling more under pressure.

this leads me on to my second tip, which is to look for your characters in alternate media. i am being very broad in my use of 'media' here - saw a textpost on tumblr that reminded you of Mello? save it, and use it as inspiration. read a book that discusses the american mafia that feels pertinent to the fic you're writing? note that down. i am currently reading banana fish, another manga, in which the protagonist Ash Lynx resembles Mello to me in a multitude of ways. yet because this is set in a different universe than death note, it gives me a better understanding of how this archetype would respond in different environments. just as you should use your lived experiences to inform your writing, use the media and even the people around you to define your characters. they may not behave exactly as they would in canon, but that shouldn't be the goal, either. many fic readers want fresh interpretations of the characters they are reading about.

i will direct you to the post that morphinejunkie - the author of crush - made about characterising Mello too, because i find it extremely helpful. it should go without saying, but reading other fanfiction will inevitably help you with working out what characterisation styles you like, and which ones you may wish to avoid.

i do apologise for rambling (although if you are familiar with my blog, i fear you have come to expect as much from me by now), but i do genuinely hope some of this was helpful! please do believe that your ideas are important and that you are more than capable to write the fanfiction you are envisioning. it will be difficult, and you will find that you doubt yourself because unfortunately, it can be so easy to compare your work, or to place a lot of worth on the opinions of others, but i mean this in all sincerity - there will be people who will love your work. it will be completely worth fighting your writing anxiety for, and you never know what wonderful things that await you down this path... good luck!

[b-a-pigeon]

Well... okay.

As a general rule, I do not participate in Author Drama. I shared that tweet earlier because I post fairly often about the whiteness and racism of (queer) writing spaces and felt it was pertinent, not because I care to weigh in on interpersonal conflict between two people I do not know.

That said: I feel weird about how DN approached me after my post, and I want to speak to that. [Cut for length]

I frankly did not realize that they followed me on here and would have soft blocked them had I known; I had no intention of them seeing that post on their own dash, and it's fully my bad that they did. But anyway... DN sent me a message immediately after I posted the screenshot encouraging me to seek out the evidence and draw my own conclusions about their conflict with Freydís. I said I'd hear them out, because I really do have zero context beyond Rainbow Crate's statement.

In response, DN sent a series of screenshots of their own Discord messages relaying the situation to someone else with no further evidence or explanation. These messages included a lot of detailed and personal information on their mental health; some obviously minimizing language, eg referring to gossiping about Freydís in a professional author's Discord server as "being a silly bean"; and several personal insults to Freydis, including calling them immature and pathetic.

They further characterized a message from Freydís's publicist as both "threatening" and "insulting." Freydís has publicly shared (in this thread) what I assume to be this email as well as other correspondence, and I personally consider that a gross exaggeration. Compare this description to the actual text of the email:

Again, I'm not trying to weigh in on who's right and who's wrong; I still feel as though I'm lacking context here. I think there is something to be said about the fact that Freydís has a publicist to navigate this situation while DN is responding personally. Rainbow Crate has corroborated Freydís's claims of "inappropriate behavior," at least, and it does seem true that DN has continued to talk shit about Freydís through their professional accounts months after they ceased communication and blocked each other. Beyond that, I cannot say.

What I will say is that I find the way DN approached me highly unprofessional & inappropriate. Asking for context is not an invitation to trauma dump about your mental health or to say ugly things about someone who you have beef with who I don't even know, including mischaracterizing a very professional email as insulting and threatening while doing the "I'm just a smol innocent bean" routine wrt your own behavior.

White people self-victimizing/infantilizing while painting POC with whom they are in conflict as overly aggressive and cruel is one of many ways that white people make professional & social spaces hostile to people of color. This has happened to me before, and it fucking hurts seeing people you know, trust, and work with uncritically buy into the narrative of you as violent aggressor just because a white person's feelings were hurt, regardless of the truth. It's very easy for me to spot this pattern of behavior and I have zero patience for it.

I post this not as a call-out or call to action for anyone to boycott or cut ties with DN; Freydís themself seems more interested in getting DN to just stop posting about them than affecting their career. I just wanted to share this information for the benefit of anyone who cares and also as a shining example of what not to do in my DMs. Okay, thanks.

[hadjiiembercolgatenerdmctillhawk]

ok time for wifi troubleshooting dump (for Windows but the concepts are true for any device)

First, how this happens. Imagine you had a router that wasn't plugged into anything but power, and a laptop with an ethernet port. If you plugged the laptop into the router, you would get a similar message of "connected without internet" but it would show an ethernet icon with instead of wifi icon.

What that error means is that you did, in fact, connect to the wifi. That's layers 1 and 2 of the internet. Trouble is, there's more layers, and you need all the layers to use the internet.

Layer 3 of the internet is the Routing layer. Yes, this is where the name "router" actually comes from, but I digress. This is the layer of the internet that deals with "IP addresses". Where your computer or your phone or TV or whatever normally gets an IP address from is something called "DHCP". Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

You don't need to memorize that. Just know that after you connect to a network with wifi or ethernet cable, one of the first things device will do by default is send a broadcast on the network asking "Hey! Is anyone here a DHCP server?" This works because certain sorts of broadcasts don't need your computer to know how to use the network more than just being connected to it.

The addresses used when asking this are actually 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255. If those sound like special addresses, that's cuz they are. "no address" and "everyone who can hear this". Anyways...

Your home router by default is running a dhcp server on it, so it SHOULD hear this broadcast and it SHOULD respond and your computer SHOULD negotiate whats called a "DHCP lease". This basically is just a bit of information saying "ok so here's your address and subnet size, here's your default gateway, here's some DNS servers, it's good for [LENGTH OF TIME HERE]."

The first thing to check is, did DHCP work? Right-click the network icon, whether ethernet or wifi, and chose "Open Network and Internet Settings".

Then go to the network properties of either the ethernet or the wifi, whichever one you're connected to.

Yours won't say "connected" cuz yall internet is broken but the buttons are still there.

The big thing you're looking for is the "IPv4 address". IPv6 is different don't worry about it right now and usually if IPv4 is broken then IPv6 is broken anyways, if your internet provider even serves you IPv6... ANYWAYS.

If you have an address like 192.168.something.something or 10.something.something.something you probably got a DHCP lease so that's not the issue.

If you have an address like 169.254.something.something then that means that either the DHCP server didn't respond, or it did respond but your wifi signal is so bad that your computer didn't hear the response.

Restart your router, look into changing the wifi channel settings on the router to a less occupied channel, try using 5ghz wifi if possible though not everyone's computer or router supports that, sometimes restart your computer cuz sometimes Windows' networking software does stupid thing.

Also, unless you KNOW you're supposed to be using Static addressing, make sure you're set to Automatic. Someone may have turned off Automatic addressing cuz they're a prankster. Or they don't know what they're doing. Or both.

Well, if you got to this point because you aren't having a DHCP issue, then things get a little tougher cuz the "internet is out and you should call your ISP to find out if it's a wider outage that they're already working on fixing or if it's just you" possibilities start to show up now.

Time for Command Prompt. I promise it's not nearly as scary as you might think.

Alright, time for our first command. Type in "ipconfig" without the quotes, and hit enter. It'll spew out a bunch of text at you, but it's not as complicated as it looks.

I crossed the things in thick red out cuz I don't trust tumblr to not pull some shit, and the one thing in thin orange because it's fine if people see that but it's in the middle of some stuff we want.

Yall have used Discord at some point, right? You see that Default Gateway? We're gonna ping it. "ping 192.168.1.1" or put whatever your gateway is instead.

I'm on ethernet with properly functioning equipment, so my ping delay is <1ms (less than 1 millisecond). Wifi is gonna be higher, anywhere from 10 to 200 milliseconds, depending on your wifi quality.

Also, if your wifi connection is really bad, you may see "Request Timed Out".

If you're having trouble pinging the gateway, you may want to do a ping test. Adding a -w 50 (wait 50 milliseconds) will make the computer not wait long for failed pings, and -n 40 will make it try 40 times instead of just 4 times, cuz we need more data than just 4 tries.

This'll take a while to run (about 40 seconds to be exact). If you get tired of it running or just everything is timing out constantly then you can press Control C (like copying something in a text editor) to interrupt the program.

The big things to pay attention to are the "round trip times" and the % loss.

If your % loss to the gateway is 100% then either your computer is configured wrong and you should check that you're using the right addressing, or your wifi is extremely bad, or extremely rarely your router doesn't respond to pings on its local network. This is almost never the case. Your router probably doesn't respond to pings from the internet for security reasons, but pings from the inside are good for troubleshooting.

If your % loss to the gateway is over 10%, and/or your times are consistently very high (over 100ms or so) then your wifi conditions are extremely bad. Either you don't have enough signal strength, or there's heavy interference and basically your computer and router are effectively trying to have a conversation while at a loud metal concert. Neither of them can hear eachother very well.

There might be something wrong with your internet service provider still; but if you were wondering why using your wifi is suffering even when the internet isn't out, that's a hint.

If your % loss to the gateway is over 1% but under 10% then that's Not Great and you should still look into wifi channelization but it wouldn't stop you from being able to use the internet entirely.

Under 1% is okay, that means it's not a wifi issue.

The next thing to try is to ping a well-known usually-up service, such as Cloudflare Public DNS (1.1.1.1) or Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) or Quad9 (9.9.9.9)

My internet is working fine, so I have 0 loss and while there is some variance (one got 34ms instead of 11) everything looks peachy.

If your pings to one of these public services all fail, then either your router needs to be configured because either 1. it wasn't set up in the first place (you would not believe how many people I take calls from that have this issue) or 2. it factory reset itself for some reason (some people think that rebooting the router means use the reset button. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT.) and you need to pay attention cuz if it happens again that may mean ur router is screwed.

Or, there's an actual service outage, and you should call your ISP to find out if it's just you, or if it's a general outage and they're already working on it and all you can do is hurry up and wait.

And... that's it. There are other weirder issues that you can have, sure. As long as this post is, explaining some of those issues would take even longer. And I would LOVE to explain some of them. But this post is already more than long enough, and it covers the vast majority of cases.

Thank you for reading and good luck!

when the wifi says "connected without internet" how about i fucking kill you

[haseeb06]

Server Status Checker

A server status checker is a tool or script used to monitor and verify the health of a server. It checks if a server is online, how responsive it is, and its overall performance. Depending on what you're looking for, a server status checker could serve different purposes, such as checking for uptime, response time, and availability of specific services (e.g., HTTP, FTP, DNS, etc.).

Here's a breakdown of how you can check the status of a server:

1. Basic Tools for Server Status Checking

Ping: A simple way to check if the server is reachable and responding.

. Third-Party Server Status Tools

Pingdom: A widely used service that provides real-time monitoring of server uptime, response time, and performance.

UptimeRobot: Monitors server availability and alerts you if your server goes down.

StatusCake: Another tool for checking uptime, response time, and overall server health.

3. Creating a Simple Server Status Checker

You can create your own script using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Here's a simple Python example:

Python Example (using requests library):

[qcsdclabs]

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a network management protocol used to automatically assign IP addresses and other network configuration parameters to devices (called clients) on a network. This enables devices to communicate with each other and with other networks, such as the internet, without requiring manual IP address configuration.

How DHCP Works:

DHCP Discover:

When a device (e.g., a computer or smartphone) connects to a network, it does not have an IP address initially.

The device sends a DHCP Discover message to the network to find a DHCP server. This message is broadcast to all devices on the network because the client does not know the address of the server.

DHCP Offer:

A DHCP server, upon receiving the Discover message, sends a DHCP Offer message back to the device. This offer contains:

An available IP address for the client.

The subnet mask (determines the network's size).

The default gateway (for routing traffic to other networks).

DNS server addresses (for domain name resolution).

DHCP Request:

The client selects one of the offers (if there are multiple DHCP servers) and sends a DHCP Request message to the chosen DHCP server, requesting the offered IP address and configuration parameters.

DHCP Acknowledgment:

The DHCP server responds with a DHCP Acknowledgment (ACK) message, confirming the IP address and network settings have been assigned to the client.

The client can now use the IP address to communicate on the network.

DHCP Lease Time:

The IP address assigned to a client is not permanent; it is leased for a certain period, known as the lease time.

Once the lease is about to expire, the client can either request to renew the lease or release the address and start the process over.

Key Benefits of DHCP:

Automation: Automatically assigns IP addresses to devices, reducing the need for manual configuration.

Centralized Management: Network administrators can manage IP address assignments from a central DHCP server, making it easier to maintain large networks.

IP Address Conservation: DHCP ensures that IP addresses are efficiently allocated, avoiding conflicts (duplicate addresses) or unused addresses.

Scalability: Works well on both small home networks and large enterprise networks.

Easy Address Changes: When changes need to be made (e.g., subnet changes), they can be updated centrally on the DHCP server rather than on each device.

Types of DHCP Configurations:

Dynamic Allocation: The DHCP server assigns a pool of IP addresses to clients for a limited time (lease). After the lease expires, the address is returned to the pool.

Automatic Allocation: A client receives a permanent IP address from a predefined pool, ensuring it always gets the same address.

Manual Allocation: The DHCP server assigns a specific IP address to a client based on its MAC address (static DHCP).

DHCP in Action:

A device (e.g., a laptop) connects to a Wi-Fi network.

The laptop sends a DHCP Discover message.

The router or server responds with a DHCP Offer.

The laptop requests the IP address with a DHCP Request.

The router sends a DHCP Acknowledgment, and the laptop gets its IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS settings.

In summary, DHCP automates IP address management and simplifies network configuration for devices, making it crucial for most modern networking environments.

for more details visit www.qcsdclabs.com

[govindhtech]

​HTTP 429 Errors: Keep Your Users Online And Happy

429 Errors

Avoid leaving your visitors waiting when resources run out: How to deal with 429 errors

429 error meaning

When a client sends too many requests to a server in a specified period of time, an HTTP error known as “Too Many Requests” (Error 429) occurs. This error can occur for many reasons:

Rate-limiting

The server limits client requests per time period.

Security

A DDoS attack or brute-force login attempt was detected by the server. In this instance, the server may block the suspect requestor’s IP.

Limits bandwidth

Server bandwidth is maxed out.

Per-user restrictions

The server has hit its maximum on user requests per time period.

The mistake may go away, but you should fix it to avoid losing traffic and rankings. Flushing your DNS cache forces your computer to acquire the latest DNS information, fixing the issue.

Large language models (LLMs) offer developers a great deal of capability and scalability, a seamless user experience depends on resource management. Because LLMs require a lot of processing power, it’s critical to foresee and manage possible resource depletion. Otherwise, 429 “resource exhaustion” errors could occur, which could interfere with users’ ability to interact with your AI application.

Google examines the reasons behind the 429 errors that LLMs make nowadays and provides three useful techniques for dealing with them successfully. Even during periods of high demand, you can contribute to ensuring a seamless and continuous experience by comprehending the underlying causes and implementing the appropriate solutions.

Backoff!

Retry logic and exponential backoff have been used for many years. LLMs can also benefit from these fundamental strategies for managing resource depletion or API unavailability. Backoff and retry logic in the code might be useful when a model’s API is overloaded with calls from generative AI applications or when a system is overloaded with inquiries. Until the overloaded system recovers, the waiting time grows dramatically with each retry.

Backoff logic can be implemented in your application code using decorators in Python. For instance, Tenacity is a helpful Python general-purpose retrying module that makes it easier to incorporate retry behavior into your code. Asynchronous programs and multimodal models with broad context windows, like Gemini, are more prone to 429 errors.

To show how backoff and retry are essential to the success of your gen AI application, Google tested sending a lot of input to Gemini 1.5 Pro. Google is straining the Gemini system by using photos and videoskept in Google Cloud Storage.

The results, where four of five attempts failed, are shown below without backoff and retry enabled.the results without backoff and retry configured

The outcomes with backoff and retry set up are shown below. By using backoff and retry, all five tries were successful. There is a trade-off even when the model responds to a successful API call. A response’s latency increases with the backoff and retry. Performance might be enhanced by modifying the model, adding more code, or moving to a different cloud zone. Backoff and retry, however, is generally better in times of heavy traffic and congestion.The results with backoff and retry configured

Additionally, you could frequently run into problems with the underlying APIs when working with LLMs, including rate-limiting or outages. It becomes increasingly crucial to protect against these when you put your LLM applications into production. For this reason, LangChain presented the idea of a fallback, which is a backup plan that might be employed in an emergency. One fallback option is to switch to a different model or even to a different LLM provider. To make your LLM applications more resilient, you can incorporate fallbacks into your code in addition to backoff and retry techniques.

With Apigee, circuit breaking is an additional strong choice for LLM resilience. You can control traffic distribution and graceful failure management by putting Apigee in between a RAG application and LLM endpoints. Naturally, every model will offer a unique solution, thus it is important to properly test the circuit breaking design and fallbacks to make sure they satisfy your consumers’ expectations.

Dynamic shared quota

For some models, Google Cloud uses dynamic shared quota to control resource allocation in an effort to offer a more adaptable and effective user experience. This is how it operates:

Dynamic shared quota versus Traditional quota

Traditional quota: In a Traditional quota system, you are given a set amount of API requests per day, per minute, or region, for example. You often have to file a request for a quota increase and wait for approval if you need more capacity. This can be inconvenient and slow. Of course, capacity is still on-demand and not dedicated, thus quota allocation alone does not ensure capacity. Dynamic shared quota: Google Cloud offers a pool of available capacity for a service through dynamic shared quota. All of the users submitting requests share this capacity in real-time. You draw from this shared pool according to your needs at any given time, rather than having a set individual limit.

Dynamic shared quota advantages

Removes quota increase requests: For services that employ dynamic shared quota, quota increase requests are no longer required. The system adapts to your usage habits on its own.

Increased efficiency: Because the system can distribute capacity where it is most needed at any given time, resources are used more effectively.

Decreased latency: Google Cloud can reduce latency and respond to your requests more quickly by dynamically allocating resources.

Management made easier: Since you don’t have to worry about reaching set limits, capacity planning is made easier.

Using a dynamic shared quota

429  resource exhaustion errors to Gemini with big multimodal input, like large video files, are more likely to result in resource exhaustion failures. The model performance of Gemini-1.5-pro-001 with a traditional quota and Gemini-1.5-pro-002 with a dynamic shared quota is contrasted below. It can be observed that the second-generation Gemini Pro model performs better than the first-generation model due to dynamic shared quota, even without retrying (which is not advised).model performance of Gemini-1.5-pro-001 with traditional quota versus Gemini-1.5-pro-002 with dynamic shared quotamodel performance of Gemini-1.5-pro-001 with traditional quota versus Gemini-1.5-pro-002 with dynamic shared quota

Dynamic shared quota should be used with backoff and retry systems, particularly as request volume and token size grow. In all of its initial attempts, it ran into 429 errors when testing the -002 model with greater video input. The test results below, however, show that all five subsequent attempts were successful when backoff and retry logic were used. This demonstrates how important this tactic is to the consistent performance of the more recent -002 Gemini model.

A move toward a more adaptable and effective method of resource management in Google Cloud is represented by dynamic shared quota. It seeks to maximize resource consumption while offering users a tightly integrated experience through dynamic capacity allocation. There is no user-configurable dynamic shared quota. Only certain models, such as Gemini-1.5-pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-flash-002, have Google enabled it.

As an alternative, you may occasionally want to set a hard-stop barrier to cease making too many API requests to Gemini. In Vertex AI, intentionally creating a customer-defined quota depends on a number of factors, including abuse, financial constraints and restrictions, or security considerations. The customer quota override capability is useful in this situation. This could be a helpful tool for safeguarding your AI systems and apps. Terraform’s google_service_usage_consumer_quota_override schema can be used to control consumer quota.

Provisioned Throughput

You may reserve specific capacity for generative AI models on the Vertex AI platform with Google Cloud’s Provisioned Throughput feature. This implies that even during periods of high demand, you can rely on consistent and dependable performance for your AI workloads.

Below is a summary of its features and benefits:

Benefits

Predictable performance: Your AI apps will function more smoothly if you eliminate performance fluctuation and receive predictable reaction times.

Reserved capacity: Queuing and resource contention are no longer concerns. For your AI models, you have a specific capacity. The pay-as-you-go charge is automatically applied to extra traffic when Provisioned Throughput capacity is exceeded.

Cost-effective: If you have regular, high-volume AI workloads, it can be less expensive than pay-as-you-go pricing. Use steps one through ten in the order process to determine whether Provisioned Throughput can save you money.

Scalable: As your demands change, you may simply increase or decrease the capacity you have reserved.

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This would undoubtedly be helpful if your application has a big user base and you need to give quick response times. This is specifically made for applications like chatbots and interactive content creation that need instantaneous AI processing. Computationally demanding AI operations, including processing large datasets or producing intricate outputs, can also benefit from provisioned throughput.

Stay away with 429 errors

Reliable performance is essential when generative AI is used in production. Think about putting these three tactics into practice to accomplish this. It is great practice to integrate backoff and retry capabilities into all of your gen AI applications since they are made to cooperate.

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How to Fix Crawl Errors: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the world of SEO, crawl errors are common yet highly impactful on your website's visibility and performance. Search engine bots, or crawlers, scan your website to index pages, but when they encounter an issue, they flag it as a "crawl error." While this might sound like a minor inconvenience, crawl errors can prevent your site from ranking well, which can lead to a decline in traffic and user engagement.

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to fix crawl errors effectively, ensuring that your website runs smoothly and gets indexed properly by search engines like Google.

What Are Crawl Errors?

Crawl errors occur when a search engine tries to access a page on your website but fails. There are two primary types of crawl errors: site errors and URL errors.

Site Errors affect your entire website, making it inaccessible to search engines.

URL Errors are specific to individual pages that search engines are unable to crawl.

By learning how to fix crawl errors, you can prevent these issues from hurting your search rankings and make your website more user-friendly.

Common Types of Crawl Errors

Before we dive into how to fix crawl errors, it’s essential to know what types of errors you’re likely to encounter.

DNS Errors: A Domain Name System (DNS) error occurs when a crawler cannot communicate with your website’s server. This is a site-level issue that requires immediate attention.

Server Errors (5xx Errors): These errors happen when the server takes too long to respond to the crawler's request, or when the server is completely down.

404 Errors: These are the most common errors, where a page is missing or has been moved without proper redirection. Users and bots will see a "Page Not Found" message.

Robots.txt Issues: If your robots.txt file blocks essential pages, crawlers won’t be able to index those pages.

Redirect Chain Errors: If your website has too many redirects, or if a redirect leads to a dead page, it can confuse the crawler.

Understanding these crawl errors helps you focus on how to fix crawl errors more effectively, minimizing downtime and search engine indexing issues.

How to Fix Crawl Errors: A Detailed Process

1. Check Google Search Console

Your first step in fixing crawl errors should always be to review Google Search Console. This tool provides a detailed breakdown of crawl issues on your website, including URL errors and site errors. Here’s how:

Go to your Google Search Console account.

Navigate to the "Coverage" report, which will list all the issues Google has encountered while crawling your site.

Review each error and prioritize fixing the most critical ones first, like DNS and server errors.

2. Fix DNS and Server Errors

DNS errors and server issues can stop search engines from accessing your entire website. To fix DNS issues, you’ll need to check if your domain is configured correctly and that your hosting provider is responsive. For server errors, consider upgrading your server capacity or optimizing your server’s performance to reduce downtime.

3. Address 404 Errors

404 errors occur when a page on your website cannot be found. To fix these, you can either:

Redirect the URL: Use a 301 redirect to send traffic from the missing page to a relevant page on your site.

Restore the Content: If the page was removed by accident, you can restore it with the same URL.

Regularly auditing your website for 404 errors will help you manage them before they pile up.

4. Correct Robots.txt Files

The robots.txt file tells search engines which pages they can or cannot crawl. If your robots.txt file is blocking essential pages like your home or category pages, you’ll need to edit it. Ensure that the important sections of your website are crawlable while still blocking irrelevant or duplicate content.

5. Eliminate Redirect Chain Issues

Too many redirects in a row can confuse crawlers and users alike. If your website has a series of redirects (for example, Page A redirects to Page B, which redirects to Page C), clean it up. Ideally, one redirect should lead directly to the final destination page without unnecessary steps in between.

6. Submit a Sitemap

If you’re unsure whether search engines are crawling your site correctly, you can manually submit a sitemap through Google Search Console. A sitemap is a file that lists all the URLs on your website, helping search engines understand your site structure.

Submitting a sitemap also speeds up the crawling process and reduces the likelihood of errors being missed.

7. Monitor Crawl Budget

Crawl budget refers to the number of pages a search engine will crawl on your site within a specific time frame. If your site has too many low-quality or duplicate pages, crawlers may not index your most important content. By trimming low-value pages, you can ensure that search engines focus on the pages that matter most.

8. Regular Monitoring and Maintenance

Fixing crawl errors is not a one-time job. You need to consistently monitor your site for issues. Set up alerts in Google Search Console so that you’re notified of any new crawl errors. Conduct regular SEO audits to catch issues before they become major problems.

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How to Fix Crawl Errors and Boost Your Website’s Performance

As a website owner or SEO professional, keeping your website healthy and optimized for search engines is crucial. One of the key elements of a well-optimized website is ensuring that search engine crawlers can easily access and index your pages. However, when crawl errors arise, they can prevent your site from being fully indexed, negatively impacting your search rankings.

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to fix crawl errors, why they occur, and the best practices for maintaining a crawl-friendly website.

What Are Crawl Errors?

Crawl errors occur when a search engine's crawler (like Googlebot) tries to access a page on your website but fails to do so. When these crawlers can’t reach your pages, they can’t index them, which means your site won’t show up properly in search results. Crawl errors are usually classified into two categories: site errors and URL errors.

Site Errors: These affect your entire website and prevent the crawler from accessing any part of it.

URL Errors: These are specific to certain pages or files on your site.

Understanding the types of crawl errors is the first step in fixing them. Let’s dive deeper into the common types of errors and how to fix crawl errors on your website.

Common Crawl Errors and How to Fix Them

1. DNS Errors

A DNS error occurs when the crawler can’t communicate with your site’s server. This usually happens because the server is down or your DNS settings are misconfigured.

How to Fix DNS Errors:

Check if your website is online.

Use a DNS testing tool to ensure your DNS settings are correctly configured.

If the issue persists, contact your web hosting provider to resolve any server problems.

2. Server Errors (5xx)

Server errors occur when your server takes too long to respond, or when it crashes, resulting in a 5xx error code (e.g., 500 Internal Server Error, 503 Service Unavailable). These errors can lead to temporary crawl issues.

How to Fix Server Errors:

Ensure your hosting plan can handle your website’s traffic load.

Check server logs for detailed error messages and troubleshoot accordingly.

Contact your hosting provider for assistance if you’re unable to resolve the issue on your own.

3. 404 Not Found Errors

A 404 error occurs when a URL on your website no longer exists, but is still being linked to or crawled by search engines. This is one of the most common crawl errors and can occur if you’ve deleted a page without properly redirecting it.

How to Fix 404 Errors:

Use Google Search Console to identify all 404 errors on your site.

Set up 301 redirects for any pages that have been permanently moved or deleted.

If the page is no longer relevant, ensure it returns a proper 404 response, but remove any internal links to it.

4. Soft 404 Errors

A soft 404 occurs when a page returns a 200 OK status code, but the content on the page is essentially telling users (or crawlers) that the page doesn’t exist. This confuses crawlers and can impact your site’s performance.

How to Fix Soft 404 Errors:

Ensure that any page that no longer exists returns a true 404 status code.

If the page is valuable, update the content to make it relevant, or redirect it to another related page.

5. Robots.txt Blocking Errors

The robots.txt file tells search engines which pages they can or can’t crawl. If certain pages are blocked unintentionally, they won’t be indexed, leading to crawl issues.

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DNS Server is Not Responding - How to Fix the DNS Server Not Responding Error

When you encounter the "DNS server is not responding" error message, it could be caused by a variety of issues. Some of these may be quite simple to resolve.

DNS servers are responsible for translating hostnames into IP addresses. This process is decentralized and takes place across multiple servers worldwide.

Check your Internet connection

A common problem that can cause DNS server not responding is a connection issue. This can be caused by a variety of things, so it’s important to check your Internet connection to see what the problem is.

One way to do this is by using a different browser. If you can access the site in another browser, then it is likely that the issue is with your browser. You can also try using mobile data if you have it to see if the website works.

Another thing you can try is disabling your firewall or antivirus software. This can help prevent the issues that you are experiencing from happening in the future. To do this, open your Control Panel and go to Network and Sharing Center. From there, click on View Network Connections and then disable any connections that are not in use. If this does not work, you can always restart your modem or router.

Restart your router

If disabling firewalls and antivirus software doesn’t help, you can try restarting your router. This can help clear out any problems with your Internet connection that may be causing the DNS server not responding error.

To do this, first open your computer’s Control Panel and then click on Network and Internet. From there, click on View Network Connections and then select the connection that you are currently using. Next, select Change adapter settings. This will show you all of the connections that are connected to your computer. Click on the ones that are not being used and then disable them.

Once you have disabled all of the extra connections, reboot your router and then attempt to visit the website again. If the error still occurs, you may need to contact your Internet service provider to fix the problem. If not, you can try changing your browsers to see if the error resolves. Usually, swapping browsers will solve this issue and it can also be a sign that your default web browser isn’t updated properly.

Try a different browser

If you're using a web browser that's not working properly, it could be causing the DNS server not responding error. Try using another browser to see if this fixes the problem.

For example, if you're using Chrome on Windows, try using Firefox. If you're on a Mac, try Safari.

You can also try flushing your DNS cache. To do this, click the Start menu and type Command Prompt into the search box. Then, enter ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter. This will clear out your DNS cache and may fix the error.

If the above steps don't help, you can try uninstalling any additional software on your computer that might be interfering with your Internet connection. This can include antivirus or firewall software. Disabling these programs can sometimes help you fix the DNS server not responding error. However, it's important to note that this will also affect your overall security and safety. So, be sure to only use trusted programs and disable any unnecessary ones.

Check your DNS settings

If you're still getting the DNS Server is not responding error, it might be time to check your DNS settings. This is an easy step that can help you solve the problem and get back online in no time.

Your DNS server is responsible for converting your hostname into an IP address, which is used to connect to the internet. This is usually done through a decentralized system that works across many different servers. If one of these servers is down for any reason, you will receive the DNS server is not responding error message on your computer.

To check your DNS settings, open the Control Panel and select "View Network Connections". This will show you all of your current and active connections. Right-click on the connection that is currently being used and then click on Properties.

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7 Essential Tips for Running a Successful SMTP Test Online

In today’s fast-paced digital world, email communication remains one of the most powerful tools for businesses and individuals alike. However, ensuring that your emails reach the inbox and are not marked as spam requires your SMTP server (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to be in perfect working order. This is where performing regular tests using online SMTP test tools becomes crucial.

SMTP tests help you check the health of your server and identify issues before they affect email deliverability. By conducting regular mail server checks, you can pinpoint configuration errors, authentication problems, and potential blacklisting. Here, we’ve put together seven essential tips to help you run a successful SMTP test online and optimize your email performance.

1. Choose the Right Online SMTP Test Tool

The first and most important step in running an SMTP test online is selecting the right tool. Several online SMTP test tools are available, offering a range of functionalities. Some popular options include MXToolbox, Mailtrap, and Wormly. These tools allow you to check your SMTP server for various issues, such as DNS misconfigurations, blacklisting, SPF and DKIM problems, and overall performance.

When choosing a tool, make sure it aligns with your needs. Some tools offer free basic tests, while others provide more advanced diagnostic features, such as server response time analysis and SSL/TLS checks.

2. Verify DNS and Authentication Records

Before running your SMTP test online, ensure that your Domain Name System (DNS) and authentication records are correctly configured. Incorrect DNS settings can cause your emails to be flagged as spam or rejected entirely. Pay special attention to your SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) records.

Most online test tools allow you to check your SPF and DKIM records to ensure they’re set up correctly. If your authentication is weak or missing, your emails may struggle to reach inboxes.

3. Check for Blacklisting

Another critical step in running an SMTP test is performing a mail server check to see if your SMTP server is blacklisted. Servers are often added to spam databases if they send unsolicited or spammy emails, intentionally or not. Being blacklisted can severely hinder your ability to send emails, as many email providers will block emails from your server.

4. Test for Encryption and Security Protocols

Security is a top priority for email communication, especially when dealing with sensitive information. During your SMTP test, make sure your server supports SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption. These protocols ensure that emails sent from your server are securely encrypted, protecting both you and your recipients.

Many SMTP test tools allow you to check your server’s SSL/TLS configurations and ensure that the necessary encryption protocols are in place.

5. Monitor Response Times

An often overlooked aspect of running an SMTP test online is monitoring your server’s response time. Slow response times can delay email delivery or cause emails to bounce. Your test tool should provide data on how quickly your SMTP server responds to requests.

If your server takes too long to process requests, it could indicate performance issues. Consider optimizing your server’s configuration or upgrading your hosting service if slow response times persist.

6. Check Server Logs for Detailed Analysis

While running a basic mail server check can give you a high-level overview of your SMTP server’s health, checking your server logs provides a more detailed picture. Server logs contain valuable information about how your server is handling email requests, including details on bounced messages, error codes, and connection attempts.

By reviewing these logs after conducting an SMTP test online, you can identify patterns that may indicate recurring issues. Some SMTP test tools offer integrations that allow you to directly monitor logs and analyze errors in real time.

Use your online SMTP test tool to check whether your IP address or domain has been flagged on any blacklists. If you find your server on a blacklist, you’ll need to take steps to address the issues and request removal.

7. Regularly Test Your SMTP Server

Finally, testing your SMTP server should be a regular part of your email management process. Don’t wait for problems to arise before running a check on your SMTP server. Regular tests will help you stay ahead of issues like blacklisting, configuration errors, and performance bottlenecks.

Set a schedule to perform SMTP tests weekly or monthly, depending on your email volume. Frequent tests can prevent downtime, maintain your server’s performance, and ensure that your emails always reach their destination.

Conclusion

Performing a successful SMTP test online is critical to ensuring that your email system is working properly and that your messages are reaching their intended recipients. By following these seven essential tips, you can optimize your SMTP server, prevent email deliverability issues, and stay ahead of any potential problems.

From choosing the right online SMTP test tool to regularly checking your server’s logs, every step you take contributes to your mail server's overall health and performance. Start integrating these practices into your email management strategy to keep your server functioning smoothly and maximize the effectiveness of your email campaigns.

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19 Website Speed Optimization Strategies for 2024

Website speed optimization can help you increase average time on page, reduce your bounce rate, and convert more visitors into customers. 

If you’re not sure how to get started, we’ve got you covered. Below we'll explain what website speed optimization is and 19 strategies that will help you improve your website speed and overall website performance. 

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What is website speed optimization?

Website speed optimization is the set of strategies and best practices implemented to make a website as fast as possible.

Website speed optimization offers other benefits as well, like a higher conversion rate, lower bounce rate, and improved user experience.

Several studies prove that website speed interrelates with other key metrics. For example, according to a recent study by Portent, a B2B site that loads in 1 second has a conversion rate that's three times higher than a site that loads in 5 seconds.

Each additional second of load time steepens that difference in conversion rate, as seen in the chart below. 

When looking at overall goal conversion rates instead of ecommerce conversions, the dropoff of conversions is much steeper as sites get slower, according to Portent. When pages load in 1 second, the average conversion rate is 39%. At a 2-second load time, the conversion rate drops to 34%. At 5 seconds, the conversion rate drops to 22%. After that, you can expect roughly half the conversion rate of lightning-fast websites.

How to Optimize Your Website Speed

Your hosting provider, images, JavaScript and CSS files, and web fonts are just a few factors that can impact your website speed. To get the fastest website possible, you can optimize all these factors by following the steps below. While not exhaustive, this list will form a comprehensive optimization strategy. 

1. Audit Your Site

Before making any changes that impact how your site loads and handles content, it’s worth auditing its current performance.

To start, you can use a free tool like PageSpeed Insights. It will assess your Core Web Vitals on mobile (by default) or desktop and let you know if you passed. It will also provide a color-coded score reflecting your site’s overall performance, and identify opportunities for improving your score. Here's an example for Forbes.com. 

Your assessment should also include actual experience: access your website from multiple devices and see what the experience feels like. Is it seamless and speedy, or cumbersome and clunky?

The more data you have about how your site performs, the better your ability to identify and implement key fixes.

2. Prioritize Potential Fixes

Once you’ve identified website speed issues, it's tempting to try to fix everything at once. But even if you had unlimited resources and time, we wouldn't recommend this approach. 

Instead, try to prioritize potential fixes based on what matters most to your visitors. For example, if your site takes a significant amount of time to start loading, focus your efforts on server-side concerns such as hosting provider problems or DNS issues. This takes priority even if the content on your site also struggles to deliver at speed — because visitors won't stick around to see your content if the page itself takes long to load.

You can also use the recommendations and diagnostics provided by speed testing tools, like PageSpeed Insights, to help prioritize your optimization efforts. For example, when looking at the list below, you would prioritize reducing main-thread work — the time spent parsing, compiling and executing JS — over avoiding large layout shifts. 

It can give users faster-loading websites that respond more efficiently to user interactions, which helps your business boost user satisfaction and search engine rankings.

3. Evaluate Your Current Hosting Provider

As noted above, your hosting provider could be a potential source of speed problems. While several factors could contribute to speed issues, including the geographical location of your provider, their physical infrastructure and the overall bandwidth of their network connection, the type of web hosting your website is using can also impact performance.

Three common types are shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting.

Shared: Although shared hosting options are the most cost-effective, they split hosting resources among multiple sites, which lowers overall performance. This will especially cause problems if your site gets spikes in traffic or a consistent amount of high traffic.

VPS: Virtual private server (VPS) options logically segment services on a shared physical drive to improve performance but still face speed issues if resource loads are high.

Dedicated: Dedicated servers are more expensive than shared or VPS options but will significantly boost your speed, regardless of resource load. 

4. Consider a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

When all data required to fully load your site is stored in one place, initial and ongoing load times suffer.

This issue will only heighten as internet and data service providers continue to experience dramatic growth in internet traffic worldwide. According to the World Development Report 2021 by The World Bank, global internet traffic is expected to reach 150,000 GB per second by the end of 2022, which is a 1000% increase from 2002.

Content delivery networks (CDNs) can help. They use multiple servers to store replications of your content across multiple locations. When users visit your site, the CDN chooses the server (or servers) closest to their physical location to optimize content delivery.

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CDNs are becoming increasingly popular. In fact, according to data from the Cisco Visual Networking Index, CDNs will carry 72% of Internet traffic by 2022.

5. Optimize Your Images

Images can make your site more engaging and memorable, but they can also drag down loading times, especially if they’re high resolution.

According to the HTTP Archive, the median weight of images on a web page on desktop is over 1,000 KB (!).

Compressing these images before adding them to your site can save precious weight and time — many photo-editing programs now include “save for web” options that optimize images for websites but there are also free, online options available for compressing common files types such as .JPG, .PNG and .TIFF. TinyPG is just one example.

Instead of using one of the image formats above and running them through an image compression tool, you could use the WebP format. This format provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images.  According to data from Google, WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. 

6. Reduce Total Redirects

Redirects send users away from the page they’ve clicked on to another page — in many cases, they’re a great way to connect high-ranking, high-traffic pages to newer content you’ve created. The problem? More redirects mean more load on the server, which can increase loading time.

While it’s worth using a redirect initially to keep content views steady, replace old redirects with new content ASAP to keep load times short.

7. Limit HTTP Requests

Every HTTP request — for images, stylesheets, scripts, and fonts — adds to your site’s overall load time. As your site grows, these HTTP requests start to stack up and eventually create a noticeable delay between user click-throughs and actual page loading.

The good news is that many of the strategies in this guide, like using a CDN and minifying CSS and JS files, can help limit the number of HTTP requests you site makes.  

8. Compress, Compress, Compress

The more you can reduce file sizes without compromising quality, the better your website performance. One of the most robust and reliable compression frameworks is Gzip, but other methods can also deliver reduced file sizes without impacting the user experience.

According to data from W3Techs, over 88% of all websites use compression and almost 60% use Gzip specifically. 

Ask your web hosting service what type of compression they’re using. If they’re not using any, consider a new provider or check out this guide for enabling Gzip compression. 

9. Capitalize on Caching

Caching allows browsers to pre-load some of your content to speed up webpage delivery.

Many content management systems (CMS) will automatically cache the most current versions of your site, but it’s also possible to extend this caching timeframe through CMS settings. This is especially beneficial for content that doesn’t regularly change on your site, like:

Logos

Static images

Downloadable files

JavaScript files

Stylesheets

If your CMS doesn't offer this feature, then consider installing a caching plugin. 

The RocketPress plugin is a great choice for an all-in-one optimization plugin, offering plenty of features for caching, image compression, frontend optimizations, and other features that can significantly speed up any WordPress website. It's free and easy to use, and comes packed with premium features such as CSS, JavaScript and HTML minificaiton, GZIP compression, and several options for caching.

10. Track 404 Errors

404 or “page not found” errors occur when users try to access a page that you’ve deleted or moved — and once they’ve run into 404 errors it’s unlikely they’ll try accessing your site again, meaning you lose a potential customer. Solve for 404 errors by running free, external tools to track down 404 outcomes and remove dead links.

11. Make Mobile a Priority

According to data from Statista, the number of mobile internet users in the United States in 2021 amounted to 276.83 million. That number is expected to grow to 296.18 million by 2025.

Not only are more people using mobile devices to access the internet — more people are using it as their preferred device type. According to data from a HubSpot survey of over 400 web traffic analysts in the U.S., 41% of traffic to their sites comes from mobile and 38% comes from desktop. 

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As more users switch to mobile devices as their primary browsing and shopping mediums, speedy mobile sites are essential.

While it’s possible to simply display your desktop site on mobile devices and hope for the best, this often results in load time and interactivity issues that quickly frustrate users. It’s worth spending on development for a mobile-native website designed to maximize loading speed and improve response time.

12. Migrate to a CMS

A website builder can be a great option for quickly building and customizing a site. But it can lack the infrastructure and features to help websites with complex issues like slow load times. If you don't have the time, resources, or experience to employ all the optimization strategies in this guide, consider migrating to a CMS. 

The right content management system can significantly improve website performance by streamlining content retrieval and offering robust options to modify site operations. Some even come with a built-in CDN.

13. Combine JavaScript and CSS Files

JavaScript and CSS files are among the largest files on a website. They also count as individual HTTP requests. So five JS files and five CSS files would require a total of 10 HTTP request. 

If you have the website development know-how, it’s possible to combine sets of JavaScript or CSS files and reduce the number of steps required to completely load your site.

WordPress plugins such as RocketPress make this possible with just a few clicks, but whether you dive into code itself or use a CMS, it’s worth considering file combination to increase total speed.

14. Minify JavaScript and CSS files

Another way you can reduce the size of your JavaScript and CSS files is minifying them. This technique involves removing any unnecessary code like:

white space characters, line breaks, comments, and extra semicolons

unused functions and variables

longhand CSS selectors that could be shorthand

This will reduce file sizes and therefore load times. You can do this manually or use a minification tool. 

15. Determine Your DNS Speed

The longer it takes your domain name server (DNS) to respond, the longer your time to first byte (TTFB) and the slower your site loads.

Free online tools can determine where your DNS provider ranks compared to other offerings, which in turn helps pinpoint specific performance issues.

Worth noting? In some cases, your hosting provider will also supply DNS services, while in others these two functions are separate.

16. Opt for Asynchronous Loading

Many files and functions on your website are loaded synchronously by default, which means they’re loaded in the order they appear on the page — elements will only load once the script or service immediately prior is fully loaded, increasing page load times.

The good news is many CMS platforms provide built-in features or plugins to enable asynchronous loading for CSS and JavaScript elements, which allows them to load simultaneously.

17. Choose Fewer Fonts

While web fonts can help your site stand out from the crowd, they can also negatively impact performance, especially if they’re uncommon or require unique character sets.

To maximize page loading speed, use the fewest number of fonts possible, and focus on fonts that are optimized for speed. 

For example, in a study of the top 10 Google Fonts by KeyCDN, Open Sans had the lowest load time at 0.476s. 

18. Pinpoint Poor-Performing Plugins

Last but not least: identify performance-sapping plugins (also called add-ons or extensions). While plugins can offer a host of useful features to help manage your website they can also negatively impact performance, especially if they’re used to load a significant amount of assets or perform large database queries. Here, the speed rule is simple: Only keep the plugins you need and always deploy the latest, fastest versions. This is particularly important if you run a WordPress website.

For more advanced methods to optimize your WordPress website speed using Google PageSpeed Insights specifically, check out this video by Jack Cao:

19. Add Expires Headers

To speed up load times for return visitors, you can add expires headers to the .htaccess file of your site. This type of HTTP header indicates how long until cached copies of site resources expire so the browser knows whether to serve site resources from the cache or request them from the server. 

Expires headers are important for two reasons. They let your browser serve up-to-date resources from the cache, which reduces server load and load time — and they prohibit your browser from serving outdated resources to visitors, which could have hurt the user experience. 

The faster, the better.

The faster your website loads, displays content, and responds to user input, the lower your bounce rates and the higher your conversions. Here, incremental improvement is critical — while going from slow to supercharged doesn’t happen overnight, any of our 19 website optimization strategies can help jumpstart your need for speed.