Thursday, January 1, 2015

ECharts – Interactive Charting Library by Baidu

ECharts is a comprehensive charting library offering a painless way of adding interactive charts to your products.


ECharts currently supports line, column, scatter, pie, radar, candlestick, chord, gauge, funnel, map and force-directed chart types, many of these can be combined in one chart.




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How to Manually Backup Your WordPress Website

You love your WordPress powered website. Maybe it's old enough to contain thousands of articles, pages and media files. But what if something goes wrong?


If the server which hosts your website crashes tomorrow, can you retrieve your WordPress website without losing anything?


This question is important, and to answer yes, you should know about backups. Fortunately, if you don't know how to backup your WordPress website, you've come to the right place.


Why Is Backing up WordPress Important?


Before learning the basis of backing up WordPress, it is important to talk about why you should care about doing this and why you should have backups of your website. This is actually independent of your choice of using WordPress - whatever your website is built with, you should always have regular backups.


Backing up your website allows you to retrieve a working version if something goes wrong or something is done that breaks it. Several things can break a website: a server crash, an external attack, an error happening during an update, or even human error.


More often, you are not responsible of errors occurring on the server you use and, just as you are human and can make mistakes, the people managing your server can, too.


These errors can be severe, where all or a part of your website is altered: you can lose articles, photos, videos, or you can even lose access to your website. That's surely not a thing you want, and that's why backing up your website is important.


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Tools for Testing Website Performance

If you already consider website design, development, content, and SEO as the parameters of success on the web, then it’s the right time to start giving attention to your website’s loading time.


With improvements in web page development, the average user likes visiting and navigating websites at a faster pace. There is always a risk of losing your customer if your website is lagging behind by even a few seconds.


Here are some statistics, according to one source, that show the importance of fast loading pages:



  • 8% of potential buyers cite extremely slow loading web pages as the primary reason for abandoning their purchase.

  • Over 75% of online customers opted for a competitor’s site instead of suffering inordinate delays at peak traffic time.

  • If page load time is 3 seconds or more, 57% of your website visitors will abandon your page.

  • 75% of users exit within 4 seconds.

  • When compared to business websites that load in 1 second, websites that load in 3 seconds experience a 50% higher bounce rate, 22% fewer page views, and, most significantly, 22% fewer conversions.


Even, Google made an announcement in 2010 stating the importance of page loading time in search engine results (SERP).


With that in mind, let’s look at some tools to enable you to check your website’s loading time and performance. But before moving further I have listed some parameters you should consider while selecting an ideal testing tool for your website’s performance.


How do you select a tool?


Selecting the best tool to evaluate your website’s performance is the key. The tool should have at least 3 of the features described below. This will give you a real picture of how things stack up in terms of performance.


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Les Etables

Les Etables is a Belgium recreation/vacation accommodation in the Ardennes.




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DAN Kuchen Studio

This website is for DAN Kuchen, the number one kitchen producer in Austria.




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Microbrasserie du Lac St-Jean

Located near the Véloroute des Bleuets, beaches and public market in the charming village of St-Gedeon, Microbrasserie du Lac-St-Jean invites you to an appointment rich in flavors.




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28 Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2015 From the Pros

Are you wondering what 2015 might look like for social media marketing? If the changes in 2014 are an indicator, there will be a lot more changes in 2015. To get a grip on what the near future may look like, we tapped the knowledge of 28 social media pros. Here’s what they had to [...]


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