Speeding up our website services for you

At the Journal, we believe in delivering the most valuable, cost-effective, and helpful services to you. Along with this comes the factor of optimization. As our services grow, there is more optimization and tweaking needed to retain high performance and reliability. Over the past few months, we have been doing just that. You should immediately notice a performance boost along with better reliability for nerej.com and nyrej.com. Searches throughout our site should be faster as well as regular browsing of stories. The design of the site and images within should load much quicker as well. This was accomplished by a number of strategies. First, we upgraded our server that hosts nerej.com and nyrej.com. Second, we optimized any code we could and got rid of any unused code to help get rid of dead weight. Lastly, we have been working on optimizing the images used on our sites to ensure that they load as quickly as possible. Rejournal.com is also being included in this process. One of the first things that was done to rejournal.com was enabling the event of compressing each web page before it is delivered to the user's browser. This means that, for most pages, we were able to reduce the size of the particular page by up to 80%. You can expect the web pages on rejournal.com to load much faster which reduces wasted time waiting on our website. The next task that was performed was removing any unnecessary/unused code. This helps to reduce the size of the web pages and further increase the speed at which the pages get downloaded and displayed by your browser. Many other optimizations and tweaks have been applied to rejournal.com, but there is still more we can do to make it even better. Come visit any of our three websites and notice the difference for yourself. Aaron Wood is the webmaster of Rejournal.com, Norwell, Mass.