The team at ClickTale have released a report from data they gathered from users of the ClickTale service. The report highlights tips for boosting conversions on blogs and ecommerce websites.
Some of the tips include:
I’ve been meaning to review some of my older PHP code for security vulnerabilities for a while, but never really got around to it. This afternoon, I started searching for some tools I might be able to use to do that for me. I came across the Spike PHP Security Audit Tool, and was actually fairly impressed with it.
In order to run it, I believe you need to have the PHP command-line interface installed. However, as long as you’ve got that, all you need to do is upload the package and type a simple command. It will take a while, but when it’s done, the script generates a nice HTML report showing all of the vulnerabilities it detected.
One of my colleagues sent me a link the other day to Web Site Grader, and asked me to check it out. I popped on over to the site and entered a few URLs to sites that I work on. I was pleasantly surprised to see how in-depth and accurate the analysis provided appears to be.
The utility is an SEO analyzer that rates your site in comparison to all of the other sites that have been analyzed using the tool. It offers quite a few interesting options, including the ability to compare your site to specific competitors, the ability to grade your site on specific keywords, etc.
I just wanted to make a good, quick post about two good resources I find myself using quite a bit. The first is an md5 encrypter. It’s a very nice, simple tool that simply converts any string into an md5-encrypted string.
At work, I find myself making a lot of very simple scripts that require me to set up administration areas, but don’t really warrant taking the time to set up online registration, etc. Instead, I simply use the md5 encrypter to encrypt the passwords I want to use, and then I enter those encrypted passwords directly into the database.
You can find that tool, along with quite a few others, at http://www.iwebtool.com/tools. The link directly to the md5 encryption tool is http://www.iwebtool.com/md5.
The other tool I’ve found myself using quite a bit, for basically the same reasons listed above, is a random password generator. The one I’ve been using the most is presented by PCTools.com. It offers a lot of options, and does a very nice job of generating random, secure passwords. You can find that tool at http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently went through the trouble of restoring our family computer to its original factory settings in order to try to get a little better performance out of it. However, even after all of that work, the computer is still performing fairly poorly.
Therefore, I went to the Web to look for some fairly inexpensive options to upgrade the computer. I happened upon crucial.com. Now, I’ve heard the name of that Web site thrown around on a lot of forums, but I have never bothered to visit. In the past, it was fairly easy to purchase memory upgrades, because there were only a handful of different kinds, and every memory stick worked on every motherboard.
After my unfortunate adventures with the bandwidth limitations of my Internet connection, I decided to search the Web for some sort of utility that would help me monitor and hopefully limit my downloads and uploads.
While I didn’t find anything that would actually limit my downloads and uploads (no utilities that would temporarily disable my Internet connection if I got close to my limits), I did find a really nice utility for monitoring my connection.
