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[ Warning: this is a shamelessly bragging post about website optimisation. But it's also a good insight into how to actually analyse your traffic statistics, based on bounce rate, average time on site, and returning visitors ]

After about one year after launching LAb[au]’s website redesign, here is an excerpt from Google Analytics:

0,91% bounce rate

The bounce rate describes the proportion of users whose next action after landing on your website is… to leave it – hence the “bounce” metaphor. That means the lower is the better.

I’ve never seen such a low bounce rate: it means most people that land on the homepage interact with it.  (Ok, I’m hearing the skeptics among us who will probably state that it’s because you actually need to click to  get to some content. Before you complain about “mystery meat” navigation, just understand this: web designers and developers are not LAb[au]’s target audience; we are reaching out to actors on the art, architecture scene, curators, public and private institutions, etc… which are used to – and expect  – creativity, out-of-the box thinking,  daring, clear cut identity profiles. Anyway.) Read the rest of this entry »

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I just found a nice tool to have several internet explorer versions running in parallel: the Internet Explorer Collection.

Feels like testing your site under Internet Explorer 1 ? Right, you don’t. But with this tool, you can.
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New Wordpress Plugin : Pixeline’s Email Protector, prevents spambots from harvesting any email addresses put in your wordpress post or pages.

Check it out and let me know if it works for you!

It happened me twice and maybe it happened to you (hence this post): i would install a plugin (like Relevanssi or Search Unleashed), which would break Wordpress or not function like i want it, desactivate it, at which point Wordpress goes berseck.
everytime i would edit or add a post or page, i would get this error message.

The best solution i 've had so far is to increase php memory limit to a high value. Not clean, i know, but it works.
So as not to destroy the fix whenever you upgrade Wordpress, put it in your wp-config.php file.