Make your website greener! Webforge’s new service offering can provide businesses a means by which to become more green in a way they may not have previously thought of. We actually put energy back in the grid with our hosting!

The web servers we use for our green web hosting are robust and energy efficient. They are powered by Intel Dual Quad Core Xeon processors, 24GB DDR3 ram, and hard-drives backed by large RAID-10 storage arrays for maximum performance and network redundancy. With a guaranteed 99.9% up time all of our servers have been configured to be more energy efficient without a performance trade off. Each and every one of the servers are powered by green and renewable energy sources through a partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation to purchase wind energy Renewable Energy Certificates to offset the cost of server operations.

Our prices are incredibly competitive with the industry standard, and that’s saying something considering the level of conservation efforts that have gone into making this program affordable and available to the masses! Starting at $9.99/mo you’ll have plenty of green left over for your internal conservation efforts.

Go Green with your web hosting and save the earth while conserving the green in your wallet. You can read more about the Green Web Hosting service by going to its service page. Give Webforge a call or use our contact form to contact us about making the change in your website hosting!

Baseline Speed Testing

Our baseline website assessment helps us in determining current performance bottlenecks and where to focus most of our energy. Internet Billboards’ home page took a full minute (60.08 seconds) to load, and had more than twice as many server calls as The New York Times Online and The Wall Street Journal Online combined. After analyzing the results it was clear that Internet Billboards was more bottleneck than performance!

On Page Optimizations (Front End)

We began with design optimizations which reduced load time by more than 40 seconds, this was a huge improvement but the website was still loading very slowly (20.4 seconds). After fixing obvious and topical issues like plugin bloat and simple on page optimizations we delved further into the code by rewriting core functionality; this further reduced server and database calls. After the front end optimizations were complete Internet Billboards’ home page load time had been reduced to just over 8 seconds (8.52 seconds), a 90% reduction in load time! The EXPLODE™ process was well underway but still incomplete, we shifted our focus to the web server.

Server Optimizations (Back End)

Adhering to our data scrubbing methodology we shrunk the monstrous 1.7 gig database to only 80 megs, a reduction of more than 95%! Utilization of EXPLODE™ server optimizations more than halved the server call count. We finalized the server side optimizations by making custom configuration changes to Internet Billboards’ web server, ensuring that every last drop of performance was being utilized.

EXPLODE™ Speed Up Results

The Webforge EXPLODE™ process reduced Internet Billboards’ website load time to just 3.13 seconds, an amazing 95% reduction in load time! The server call count was reduced to a meager 77 calls (including all sub-calls to multiple ad networks), and a page size of 1.02Mb (half of its original size). By reducing the number of server calls and optimizing the website’s performance EXPLODE™ enabled Internet Billboards to migrate off of their dedicated hosting server (costing $220/mo) and onto a much more reasonably priced shared server ($6/mo). Internet Billboards now scores an ‘A’ with Google’s Page Speed tool and is currently enjoying a large boost in traffic!

“I have tremendous respect and gratitude for Webforge’s process,” says Internet Billboards owner Tom George. “I was just a guy with a vision doing my best to navigate the techie waters, but with Webforge I’ve found a new partner whose knowledge and speed in finding solutions to complicated technical issues is amazing. In short, EXPLODE is the bomb!” (No pun intended, lol!)

The EXPLODE™ Website Speed Up and Acceleration process is a proven methodology of successfully speeding up websites. Contact us today to find out how EXPLODE™ can speed up your site or if you might benefit from any of our other services, like a free web design quote!

“Part of our service offerings as a full service web solution provider is Green Web Hosting”, says Webforge owner David Sanders. “All of our web servers have been optimized to run on as little electricity as possible, and 100% of that electricity is generated by renewable wind energy. The Chamber of Commerce’s ‘Growing Green’ program obviously aligned with our company goals and service offerings so it made sense for us to join.”

The Growing Green program is for businesses which have made a commitment to making continual efforts in conserving resources. The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce has recognized Webforge as a businesses which is making efforts to reduce their impact on the environment. The program strives to reinforce the idea that conserving resources also conserves finances. The program includes seven categories: solid waste prevention, recycling, purchasing, energy conservation, water conservation and water quality, transportation, and stakeholder involvement.

Webforge is a premier Atlanta web design company specializing in custom web design, website maintenance, website speed ups, identity branding, and SEO services for growing businesses in the metro area. It is a Platinum member of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, and is an accredited BBB business. Contact us today to find out how Webforge can best server your business, or request a free web design quote!

“After reviewing the BBB’s ‘Code of Business Practices and Accreditation Standards’ it was clear that Webforge held the same high level of customer satisfaction very close to it’s core business principles… We knew we belonged in the program and had the proven track record of success to back us up.”

Webforge is a premier Atlanta web design company specializing in custom web design, website maintenance, website speed ups, identity branding, and SEO services for growing businesses in the metro area. It is a Platinum member of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, and is an accredited BBB business.

Make your website faster! One of the biggest reasons for business owners’ to elect a website redesign is because of a sluggishly slow website. As a result, the pro’s at Webforge have developed a trademarked process for speeding up websites called EXPLODE!™
(Extreme Page Load Optimizations & Domain Efficacy!)

Webforge has identified and documented hundreds of both common and uncommon website speed bottlenecks and their associated optimizations. These bottlenecks occur through poor coding, poor multimedia implementation, and server or domain configurations. Each website receives a custom project plan listing bottlenecks and planned optimizations; then all optimizations are executed at once, creating an EXPLOSION of speed!

Visitors, Google, and your bottomline will benefit from a faster website. You can read more about the Website Speed Up service by going to its service page. Give Webforge a call or use our contact form to contact us about making your website faster!