bbPress  – a  streamlined, fast, and easy-to-use forum program, it integrates easily into WordPress.

We’re now offering one-click installs of bbPress. Using as a message board, it’s a great way to promote visitor interaction and also to discover what your visitors are interested in, who they are, and what else they want to see from your site.

bbPress is open source and focused on speed and security, meaning you don’t have to worry about slow loading pages or the risk of being hacked. The streamlined software is also lightweight and efficient for better use of space and bandwidth. bbPress is easy to install thanks to our one-click install solution, and the user-friendly control panel also means less work for admins and moderators once you’re up and running.

bbPress enjoys many similar customisation elements to WordPress so you can develop and install themes and plugins (e.g. for ratings, video and private forums) to customise your forums. Furthermore, bbPress can be integrated with WordPress so it has access to your blog’s functionality and users signing up to your message boards can also be users on your blog. This is especially useful for multi-author blogs, blogs with regular commenters and those looking to build up integrated site communities from an existing WordPress blog.

If you have a Premium hosting plan, you can now install bbPress just like any other one-click install. Go to your eXtend control panel, scroll down to one-click installs and install from there.

To find out more about what bbPress has to offer, check out bbpress.org.

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability. When a user is opening your website every object on the page (e.g. images or scripts) will require a round trip to the server. Those HTTP requests will delay the response time of your site, and if you are loading dozens of objects this delay can add up to several seconds.

The first step to reduce the delay from HTTP requests is to reduce the number of objects on your website. Get rid of unnecessary images, headers, styling features and the like. If possible you can also combine 2 or more adjacent images into a single one.

Secondly make sure that your requests for external files or scripts are combined in a single location. For example instead of using three CSS files to create the layout of your page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/header.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/body.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/footer.css" />

You should use a single one with all the styling information:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" />

With javascript libraries such as jQuery, Mootools and Prototype becoming increasingly popular and an array of ready built plug-ins available that can give your website that extra functionality it is very easy to end up with multiple javascript file calls in the web page. By combining these files into one single file you would reduce the number of http request dramatically.

The speed of a website is a very important factor for providing a better browsing experience to visitors (which directly effects the success of a website).

Specially, after Google announced that “speed” became one of the elements in its search ranking, it is clear that web designers/developers should be focusing more on this.

GTmetrix is a free and online website speed analyzer which uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow as the analyzing engines and display their results + recommendations online.

It enables you to compare multiple URLs and, once signed up, you can:

• view the past tests ran to compare with the current results
• schedule daily/weekly/monthly automated checks
• save reports
• set any report to be public or private

GTmetrix lets you can run a test for any website with a click.

Google Pagerank is an algorithm used by google that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. Today the PageRank index provides only one of many in the algorithm that ranks Web pages in search results from Google.

The basic principle is to assign a value (score) to each page. Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet. In other words, a page can have a PageRank even more important than the number of PageRanks pages that link to it. The page rank of your site is determined by the links to your web site. Each time somebody adds a link to your web site, Google interprets this as a vote for your site. The more links you have to your site, the more votes you get.

Not all links are counted by Google. For instance, they filter out links from known link farms. Some links can cause a site to be penalized by Google. They rightly figure that webmasters cannot control which sites link to their sites, but they can control which sites they link out to. For this reason, links into a site cannot harm the site, but links from a site can be harmful if they link to penalized sites. So be careful which sites you link to. If a site has PageRank 0, it is usually a penalty, and it would be unwise to link to it.

Improving your PageRank isn’t easy – how are you going to get other, more popular web sites to link to you? The most effective method is to not get too caught up in PageRank, but instead focus on offering great content on your web site. And if your site does have interesting and regularly updated content, other sites are going to want to link to you, and you know what that’s going to do to your PageRank!

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