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Who could imagine such a machine still exists and it's still working, A working 1976 Apple-1 Personal Computer was sold for $355,000 last week in an auction hosted by Christie's New York. This is the first Apple's Personal Computer, This particular version was hand-built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the confines of Steve Jobs' garage.
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http://www.codingsavvy.com/2017/06/apple-1-pc-hand-built-by-steve-wozniak.html

PageSpeed is the amount of time it took web server to respond to the requests of the browser and how long it takes for it to serve all page Resource(Images, Audio, Videos, Flash Animations, e.t.c.), Content (HTML, CSS and Texts) and Meta Information (HTTP info i.e Author, Content-Type, e.t.c) to be fully downloaded and rendered by the web browser. Modern browsers have been optimized to handle page loading efficiently with time, They do have their own drawbacks but not as expensive as a slow webpage.

A slowly loading webpage is not good for user experience, most users just click away or close the tab before the loading completes, These can make any potential buyer leave before the get to see any product on the website. PageSpeed improvement is a way of gaining more power above market competitors, People can browse through contents faster, make payments and review / comments. It encourage them so browse around more categories and purchase more items.
source : http://www.codingsavvy.com/2017/06/killer-tips-to-improve-website.html

^^^it 95% bots traffic the site has no robot.txt file and thats only works for the bots that plays by the rules not to talk about the outlaws.
Those are whats eating up the OP's bandwidth.
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^^^Am referring to the OP when i mentioned 4 years, I can build a solid search engine in just a solid weekend of coding.
I don't know about you but I sure don't need 40 +x years to build a search engine. When google is just 18 .
Except you want to search heaven with it.

^^^Arguing over this is not the solution, Even doe the OP is learning a lot from it. If he is willing to make it an Open source He can put it on GitHub and let do more coding than talking. Debating on which technology to use am cool with anyone. but for the indexing C++ or JAVA should be used.
If he can make it a Nigerian / Nairaland project I will commit for free when am less busy.I hope other programmers are willing to do the same.
If it take 4 Years or more I think it worth it.

^^^Guess thats why you are saying PHP is impossible. I did not mention MySQL at all. Searches don't really on a single language nor database.
Read between the lines, This talk is not about being better or who is a better coder, You did denied the fact that PHP can be use to build a search engine and am simply saying it can.
Being a programmer for a long time you should know that it not about the knowledge, experience or years spent in the industry. it all boils down to the Algorithm .

^^^The poster above me is failing to realize that you can no be more catholic more than the POPE. And I can see an APP. you have build without Bragging that surpasses the power of the platforms mentioned by the poster above you.

This is programming not Theory and am not pulling down your point here, I challenge you to build a search in whatever language you like and I will build with PHP then we test. For you can accept or decline.

dhtml18:
as long as this sach remains on php, it shall never ever ever reach 1/100th of bing.

Am sorry to disagree, I know you are talking about scalability, I know PHP is a mess but look at this. Facebook use PHP and they are able to scale it using HHVM (which is open source) they now have 1.6 billion users. Bing cant even account for half of that.Remember Hardware is cheeper than programmers time. Don't worry about Languages use Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP e.t.c. The web has evolve enough to tackle any issue you can have.

Booyakasha:
i think Google crawls for content not javascript? please explain better..?

JavaScript works on the DOM(Document Object Model), DOM will inly be loaded after the document has completed loading. but Search engine crawlers are not built to allow javascript to load for security reasons, Remember bots are computers too allowing javascript can give attackers access to some of their contents.

Long story short The template will rendered after :
1.document has been loaded then
2. DOM has been loaded
3. Java script will start running.

but search crawlers don't wait or enable step 2 AND 3 They do their work in between step 1 to 2.
let say it 1a.
JavaScript is great for user experience but for contents you want on search result there are two options, 1. pre-render 2. build html version.
Node.js tackle this with option .1 using phantomJs. Facebook and Google tackle this by building a Classic (PURE HTML ) Version / mobile version which falls under option 2.

Booyakasha:
I saw that.. it's sick..

That a good prove that there is still a long way to go.All those Eng.Math. X,Y,Z stuff are going to be useful.

I did not follow all your list but I think it too expensive my 8GB Corei5 2.7GHZ MacBook Pro serves me Good.

Tip: Your website can't be crawled by search engine because that template you switched to is 80% javascript and as at the time am typing if you are not on Node.js to use PhantonjS to pre render non of your contents will get traffic from the search engines.

This awesome Google project to show the edge of the galaxy and prove that you can build 3D Games to work on Google Chrome is highly impressive, I don't even know such can be on the web. if it were back in the early 2000s it would require thousands of programmer to build but seeing it on the web is fascinating.
Check it out : http://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

I bet they use same technology on google maps, If you are interested in building something like this see the whole benchmark here:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000stars/

Djade007:
Laravel has been my main php framework for the past 3 years

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I hate to be that guy that always detect the BUG but thankfully am not to fix this one:
You need to check your links I think some of your resources are not loading:
Font Awesome possibly your Scrips too might not be loaded because after a while all i see is a blank screen.

Am a full-stack Engineer, I can help out in some areas. timotewpeters[at]gmail.com

Learn How to use Amazon EC2 to build your own cloud base application on whatever platform of your choice, It really simple to get started with plus you will have 12 month free just to get you started.http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/05/amazon-aws-ec2-elastic-cloud-setup-with.html

You have not started and you are selling advert, Thats a bad idea my friend. It fucking slow [no offence ].
search for facebook dose not have facebook on the first page.

I created a superb interface for Computer Base Assessment Test with AngularJs just to show you how powerful Angular is, Check it out.
http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/05/how-to-create-computer-based-assessment.html

Using the WayBackMachine I was able to preview the progress of an old blog of mine and it brought back some memories, it reminds me of the Search Engine Optimization practices and tricks that I used to get the site to Alexa top 100 most visited website in some countries in just a year, Don't be surprised news website have great traffic potential but only if you know them. The top secret to this huge traffic and breakthrough is through include experimenting with the templates, news content arrangement page, categories, titles, Font Sizes, Images.You need to know this 10 thing before you write your very first content on your blog.
http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/05/dont-even-think-of-starting-news-blog.html

Gmail inbox style design with CSS and HTML5 also you will learn how to paginate and sort data with PHP, It pretty single and it something that newbies can get started with and the professionals too can use it to save some coding hours.

I can't show you demo or post source codes here so view it on

http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/05/how-to-paginate-and-sort-data-with-php.html

A server side redirect is a method of URL redirection using an HTTP status code (e.g., 301 Moved Permanently, 303 See Other and 307 Temporary Redirect) issued by a web server in response to a request for a particular URL. The result is to redirect user's web browser to another web page with a different URL.
1.
Using PHP location header


2.
Location header with Timeout

3.
Redirect with JavaScript

4.
Redirection using the .htaccess file

5 .
a tag Manual Redirection


Full tutorial at : http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/04/top-5-most-secured-ways-perform.html

FrankLampard:
You didn't state the criteria you used for your test? Please, I will also like to know how you carried your test.

My Amazon AWS Demo server, with the ip http://52.24.252.24/demos/ it a Linux server, HHVM and PHP are open sources, If you are willing to test it with your own app you can install it but it depends if your Hosting providers supports HHVM and HACK programming language.

I upgraded one of my server to PHP7 to see how my application will work with it. But personally my design has been about MVC. MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a software design pattern built around the interconnection of three main component types, in a programming language such as PHP, often with a strong focus on object-oriented programming (OOP) software paradigms. On the Other hand is Hip Hop Virtual Machine HHVM, HHVM is a virtual machine for running PHP code as well as for running the new programming language HACK it is a virtual machine based on JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation.HHVM is built by Facebook which I know will work better with the MVC design pattern all I have to do is make sure that HHVN handles the business logic of the web applications. In this post, I am going to explain my experience in running PHP7 on my server and how it compares to HHVM performance.

Read full article and comparison results ˜ http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/03/whats-new-in-php7-how-dose-it-compares.html √

To have an efficient front-end development environment require more than just the right skills, It needs to be with the right tools. This web development tools make our work easier every day. As a for a web developer/ web designer you can not help but have this tools and service readily available for every project. This tools are what add grease to the wheels of your development process and make things run smoothly without unnecessary rough patches. I have taken my time to look around the web and search for tools that are needed to have more front-end development environment on your PC and here they are base on developers remarks. It not necessary for you to have more than one tool that performs a single task but it your choice to determine the tool that suit your taste.

http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/03/must-have-tools-and-services-for-front.html

First of all a Professional programmer doesn't need a job to survive , The web is free.
Wordpress themes & plugins are there.
Upwork is there to freelance.
Blogging is there.
Create an analysis tool and other for the web put advert on the page you will earn forever.

Not everyone is a programmer.
"Any fool can write a code that a computer can understand. Good Programmers write codes that human can understand" - Martin Fowler



Never Ever Hire a Programmer if you are Not One- or have not been one:
Disagreed: Everone does not have to learn carpentry just because we need a chair, All Client want is you to see their specification and prove that you can even make it better or exact.

Ask to solve reasonable programming problems:

Do people give tailors demo clothes to sew before giving them real one? Yes, but you will pay for it. Payment is per Hour in programming.

Ask to see written projects:
The best point, as a programmer you need to have a portfolio, if you have never done something for a client before try to creat thing just for fun put it on the web and you are fine.


Have them work on projects similar to what your company does:
Great.

If you are deeply interested in certificates. now is the time to ask for those.:
Most Expert programmers drop out of school, self though programming work the best all this W3school certificate mean nothing.
In my school Engineering student code way better than Computer scientist, I don't know why because I have never been to their class.

I personally started coding without certificates not even diploma in computer training I have none and nobody every ask me because nobody care as a matter of fact my first ever project was from the State Government and they did not even bother to ask about it.

Traffic is one of the most common challenges we experience for new and old websites. But there are many ways to getting visitors to your new website. I will like to recommend that you invest time in creating an SEO strategy that helps you to connect with your customers socially, and encourages them to interact with you this way. But am not going to assume that you want free traffic or paid traffic because the best traffic sources are free. In the beginning, search engines can't work for you because it takes a long time to bring your site to the first page of Google by applying proper white hat SEO techniques. Use any chance to promote your site for free. Free promotion is always welcome, so don't neglect it. Invest into Paid Advertising (Google Adwords, Bing, Facebook, Instagram and others) Get in touch with other authoritative websites in your field and offer them some contribution to their work in exchange for the link or mention.
Well, Here is 22 different ways of increasing your website traffic.
Read more : http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/03/how-to-get-more-web-traffic-to-your.html

Thing about Blogger HTML template is that it has some XML and CSS in a single file but with little knowledge of XML and HTML templates are easy to edit to suit your desire. Blogger templates of 2016 need to have some SEO improvement markups to keep up with trending SEO practices of 2016.
full list and download here http://www.codingsavvy.com/2016/03/top-10-free-html-blogger-.html