Introducing the Web Technology Ranking and Comparison Service

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:18:47 +0000

After months of development, we are excited to introduce our web technology ranking and comparison service to the public. This new section of Webmaster Tips is designed to help developers, business owners, marketers, and analysts explore, analyze, and compare the technologies that power the web.

12 Best Free Backlink Checker Tools (Reviewed and Compared)

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:39:14 +0000

Backlinks are an essential part of search engine optimization (SEO). They play a crucial role in improving your website's ranking in search engines like Google. It is important to keep track of your backlinks, and there are many specialized online tools for doing that.

In this article, we will review the 12 best online tools for checking backlinks that are free to use and compare their results for the wmtips.com domain. For the sake of the experiment, we have sorted the list by the number of backlinks returned by each tool.

20 Useful HTML Attributes You Probably Don't Know (With Code Examples)

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:28:24 +0000

HTML is a markup language that consists of tags and their attributes used to structure and present content on the web. In a previous article, we looked at some of the underrated HTML tags. In this article, we will discuss lesser-known but still useful HTML attributes that can improve the functionality and accessibility of your website.

10+ Unknown HTML Tags You Should Be Using (With Examples)

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:40:13 +0000

The HTML specification describes many built-in elements, or tags, that define the structure and content of a web page. While many developers are familiar with the most commonly used HTML tags, such as

, or , there is a number of lesser-known tags that you may not be aware of. Most of them were introduced in HTML5. In this article, we'll take a look at these "unknown" tags that you can (and should) use to enhance your web pages. For your convenience, we have arranged them in alphabetical order and provided a code example for each tag.

50+ Creative Maintenance Page Designs From Real Websites

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:15:40 +0000

In addition to our website maintenance page tutorial, we've decided to publish our collection of the most creative and original maintenance page designs from across the web. We believe that this is the largest collection ever assembled.

7 Reasons Why You Should Choose Our IP Address Lookup Tool

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:25:18 +0000

A few weeks ago, we published a new tool, the IP Address Lookup, which allows to get a bunch of different information about an IP address, including its reverse DNS hostname, geolocation, whois data (network range, network name, organization, and its address and contact details), ASN details, and more.

Upon testing, we've found it to be a very versatile tool as it provides more all-in-one information about an IP address than any other tool available. In fact, it is one of the best free IP lookup tools out there.

The Fastest PHP Function to Check if a Value Exists in an Array. isset vs array_search vs in_array vs other methods

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:11:41 +0000

In this article, we are going to find out the fastest PHP function that is used to check if an array contains a value. We will test and compare the performance of five different methods. We will analyze how the parameter $strict affects the performance of array_search and in_array. And finally, we will compare the results with and without OPcache enabled, and draw conclusions, which method is better.

Announcing a New Tool: HTML Analyzer

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:07:23 +0000

We are happy to announce HTML Analyzer — a new tool in our webmaster tools lineup. This is a new type of tool to analyze a web page's HTML statistics. You can explore your own or competitors' pages from a different angle, getting information about top HTML tags by usage, the total size, and the number of attributes, and view individual HTML tag details.

Lazy Loading: The Definitive Guide

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:46:03 +0000

In this article, we will cover lazy loading and its benefits in making a website load faster, providing a better user experience, and thus getting a higher PageSpeed Insights score and better SEO results.

You will learn know how to implement native lazy loading and why it is preferable to lazy loading via a third-party library in 2025.

How to Make a Perfect Site Maintenance Page (Free Templates Included)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:27:43 +0000

It happens that sometimes you need to take your website offline for doing various maintenance tasks such as restoring a database backup, updating scripts, or switching from one web host to another. Some CMS have built-in (or extendable via plugins) abilities to turn on maintenance mode and others do not.

In this article, you will know how to create a perfect maintenance page with PHP, how to redirect all requests to this page with a CMS functionality (if applicable) or Apache's mod_rewrite module, and how to minimize harm to your search engine rankings while your site is offline. You will also find a simple maintenance page template and a sample .htaccess file.