The 9th February marks Safer Internet Day; a day to recognize the dangers of the internet and the need to be kinder online. But it’s not just each other we have to fear on the internet. You’ve probably heard the talk – online hackers finding their way into your website without you knowing. Spambots corrupting your Google Analytics website data. Online viruses bringing your whole website to its knees. But this is just 1% of the threats that your website faces on a daily basis.

We recently added password access for our Dashboards which has been in popular demand. Previously Dashboards were public and could be accessed by anyone with who you shared the link – but from today you can add a password to your dashboard in order to ensure only authorized visitors can see the data.

In every home, there is a place that we store things that we no longer need or use. It’s something that once gave us joy, albeit at an initial cost, and for this reason we seem unable to throw it away even though we no longer have a use for it. The main culprit? Old tech gadgets. Whether it’s at my home, my parent’s house, or the family holiday house, there is always a drawer where old phones, cables, music players, and earphones are stored away and forgotten about.

It was January 2007 when Steve Jobs officially announced the 1st Generation iPhone. At the time, there’s no doubt that he foresaw how the newly created concept of smartphone applications would become part of our everyday life. Fast forward a decade and we now have apps for literally everything, from trackable maps to online shopping, online banking to instant messaging.

It’s a new year and what better way to start working from home for the 10th month of the pandemic than with a Slack outage. For more than 3 hours on Monday 4th January, Slack users were left to fend for themselves with the use of none other than emails! to communicate with their teams – a notion that was surely lost by the 2010’s.

As Black Friday 2020 fast approaches, companies far and wide have started advertising mega sales in their droves. With slashed prices as high as 75% off, Black Friday has become one of the highest revenue days of the year for the retail industry. This year, however, is different.

Women in tech is an interesting subject for many reasons. We hear endlessly how the tech industry lacks women, how the gender pay gap is still an issue and how we still lack women in high managerial positions. But we still don’t know why this is. Are women purposely not choosing the tech industry or does the issue run deeper than that?

Today, social media uses a wide range of different social networking platforms to help its users with the creation and sharing of ideas, information, personal interests and hobbies by establishing virtual networks. Affiliates can benefit from these groups that use web-based applications to communicate, interact and connect. Affiliates participate by generating content, for example with comments, articles, photos, videos.

Page loading speed is the total length of time that it takes for a website to load completely. With regard to effective SEO, page loading speed is crucial. If your website does not load quickly, visitors to your site are likely to leave rather than wait for it to load, and search engines will penalise your site’s rank if it performs poorly.

When your website goes offline there are many factors for you to consider as a priority, such as the loss in traffic and sales and/or leads. However, another factor to consider is how a period of downtime will affect your standing in search engines such as Google. Website downtime correlates directly with lost rankings in search, which in turn leads to a long term loss of traffic for weeks and months after the initial period of downtime.