{"id":7613,"date":"2014-01-27T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T11:25:00","slug":"5-tips-to-improve-your-website-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/5-tips-to-improve-your-website-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 tips to improve your website this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of helping you to &lsquo;Power Up&rsquo; your web projects, we&rsquo;ll be giving you five quick tips each week that you can use to enhance your sites across a range of areas including SEO, page speeds, security, design and more. So, let&rsquo;s get started!<\/p>\n<h3>1. Measure your page load speeds<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/pagespeed\/insights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google&rsquo;s PageSpeed Insights<\/a> is a fantastic free tool that analyses the content of specific URLs and gives you useful suggestions on how to optimise their page load speeds. Enter your URL, click &lsquo;ANALYSE&rsquo; and you&rsquo;re away!<\/p>\n<h3>2. Conduct heatmap tracking<\/h3>\n<p>Heatmaps are really accurate tools to let you know what&rsquo;s hot and what&rsquo;s not on your website. They do this by showing you exactly where your visitors are clicking so you know what&rsquo;s getting people&rsquo;s attention. If you&rsquo;re looking for a free option to get started, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labsmedia.com\/clickheat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ClickHeat<\/a> is a popular choice or, if you&rsquo;re looking for a paid option that gives you more, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Egg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickdensity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clickdensity<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckyorange.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Orange<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. Analyse your backlinks<\/h3>\n<p>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensiteexplorer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Site Explorer tool<\/a> from Moz to find opportunities for link building, view social activity data, analyse your anchor text and more.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Get some security plugins&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re a WordPress user, there&rsquo;s a huge range of effective plugins out there that you can use to optimise the security of your site. Some great examples include&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-login-security-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Login Security 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-security-scan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acunetix WP Security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-dbmanager\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP-DBManager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/askapache-password-protect\/\" target=\"_blank\">Askapache Password Protect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bulletproof-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bulletproof Security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Make your website images responsive<\/h3>\n<p>Make your website images responsive using a jQuery plugin like <a href=\"https:\/\/responsiveimg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ResponsiveImg<\/a>. Simply add it to your site and run the single-line code targeting all images on your page.<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s all for this week; stay tuned for more great tips coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of helping you to &lsquo;Power Up&rsquo; your sites, we&rsquo;ll be giving you five quick tips each week that you can use to optimise your site across a range of areas including SEO, page speeds, security, design and more. 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