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The advantages of Computer Networks: Enhancing Connectivity & Efficiency

Computer networks form the backbone of modern communication, business operations, and data management, enabling seamless connectivity and resource sharing. Whether in workplaces, homes, or global enterprises, networking has transformed the way we exchange information. Here’s why computer networks are essential for efficiency, security, and collaboration. 1. Seamless Communication &…

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Cisco smart switches user experience, network performance solutions, Radiant Cisco partner

Learn how Cisco smart switches enhance user experience. Find Cisco switch prices, availability in India, and how Radiant assists businesses in delivering seamless network performance.

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Google Ads Introduces Channel-Level Reporting in Performance Max Campaigns

Google Ads’ Performance Max (PMax) campaigns have been advertisers’ game-changers, leveraging AI to optimize ad placements across Google’s vast network. However, the lack of transparency regarding channel-specific performance has been a longstanding concern. Addressing this, Google has announced the rollout of channel-level reporting in PMax campaigns, providing advertisers with detailed insights…

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AI-Powered Decision-Making: How to Execute with Precision and Confidence

AI-Powered Decision-Making How to Execute with Precision and Confidence Scaling a business is one thing, but making the right decisions at the right time? That’s the real challenge. We’ve already explored AI-powered leadership, customer experience, innovation, and strategic planning. Now, it’s time to connect the dots and focus on something that determines whether all of those efforts succeed…

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"The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds could trap microplastics better than a commonly used synthetic polymer.

Texas researchers proposed in 2022 using these sticky natural polymers to clean up water. Now, they’ve found that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater.

With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Rajani Srinivasan and colleagues at Tarleton State University found that the plant-based polymers from okra, fenugreek, and tamarind stick to microplastics, clumping together and sinking for easy separation from water.

In this next stage of the research, they have optimized the process for okra and fenugreek extracts and tested results in a variety of types of water.

To extract the sticky plant polymers, the team soaked sliced okra pods and blended fenugreek seeds in separate containers of water overnight. Then, researchers removed the dissolved extracts from each solution and dried them into powders.

Analyses published in the American Chemical Society journal showed that the powdered extracts contained polysaccharides, which are natural polymers. Initial tests in pure water spiked with microplastics showed that:

One gram of either powder in a quart (one liter) of water trapped microplastics the most effectively.

Dried okra and fenugreek extracts removed 67% and 93%, respectively, of the plastic in an hour.

A mixture of equal parts okra and fenugreek powder reached maximum removal efficiency (70%) within 30 minutes.

The natural polymers performed significantly better than the synthetic, commercially available polyacrylamide polymer used in wastewater treatment.

Then the researchers tested the plant extracts on real microplastic-polluted water. They collected samples from waterbodies around Texas and brought them to the lab. The plant extract removal efficiency changed depending on the original water source.

Okra worked best in ocean water (80%), fenugreek in groundwater (80-90%), and the 1:1 combination of okra and fenugreek in freshwater (77%).

The researchers hypothesize that the natural polymers had different efficiencies because each water sample had different types, sizes and shapes of microplastics.

Polyacrylamide, which is currently used to remove contaminants during wastewater treatment, has low toxicity, but its precursor acrylamide is considered toxic. Okra and fenugreek extracts could serve as biodegradable and nontoxic alternatives.

“Utilizing these plant-based extracts in water treatment will remove microplastics and other pollutants without introducing additional toxic substances to the treated water,” said Srinivasan in a media release, “thus reducing long-term health risks to the population.”

She had previously studied the use of food-grade plant extracts as non-toxic flocculants to remove textile-based pollutants from wastewater and thought, ‘Why not try microplastics?’"

-via Good News Network, May 10, 2025

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How to Improve Your Website Speed with WordPress

Introduction

If your WordPress site feels sluggish, speeding it up is key to boosting visitor satisfaction, SEO, and conversions. Thankfully, there are simple ways to improve speed without much hassle. Let’s explore some easy tips to get your site running faster. For more personalized solutions, consider Custom WordPress development services.

1. Choose a Fast Hosting Provider

The first step to a faster website is selecting a reliable hosting provider. Opt for hosting solutions specifically optimized for WordPress. Managed WordPress hosting is an excellent option since it is tailored to the platform's needs, ensuring optimal performance and automatic updates.

Recommendations:

Managed WordPress Hosting: Offers automatic updates, caching, and server-level optimizations.

VPS or Dedicated Hosting: Suitable for websites with higher traffic for better speed and reliability.

2. Use a Lightweight Theme

Heavy themes can slow down your WordPress site. Choose a lightweight and fast theme optimized for performance. Themes like Astra, GeneratePress, or the default WordPress theme are excellent options.

Tips:

Avoid themes with excessive features or built-in plugins.

Consider using a custom WordPress development service to create a lightweight, custom theme tailored to your specific needs.

3. Leverage Caching Plugins

Caching plugins create static versions of your site content, allowing for faster loading. Some popular WordPress caching plugins are WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, and WP Super Cache. These plugins can help reduce server load and improve website speed.

What to Look for in Caching Plugins:

Browser Caching: Caches static resources in visitors’ browsers for faster subsequent loads.

Page Caching: Reduces server processing time by serving static content.

Minification: Compresses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files for faster delivery.

4. Optimize Images

Large, unoptimized images can significantly slow down your site. Use an image optimization plugin like Smush or ShortPixel to compress and resize images automatically.

Best Practices:

Use the correct image format (JPEG for photographs, PNG for graphics).

Consider lazy loading images to defer loading them until they are visible on the screen.

5. Minimize JavaScript and CSS Files

Too many scripts can slow down your site. Use plugins like Autoptimize or WP Rocket to minimize and combine your JavaScript and CSS files. This reduces the number of requests your website makes, leading to faster loading times.

6. Enable GZIP Compression

GZIP compression reduces the size of files sent from your server to the user’s browser, improving the loading speed. You can enable GZIP compression using plugins like WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache.

7. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

A CDN distributes your website's content across multiple servers worldwide. It ensures that visitors are served content from the server closest to them, reducing latency and improving speed.

Popular CDN Services:

Cloudflare

KeyCDN

StackPath

8. Reduce HTTP Requests

Every element on a webpage (images, scripts, stylesheets) requires an HTTP request. Reducing the number of these requests can significantly improve your website speed.

How to Reduce HTTP Requests:

Combine CSS and JavaScript files.

Limit the number of plugins and external resources.

Use inline SVGs instead of loading icon fonts.

9. Regularly Update WordPress, Themes, and Plugins

Outdated software can slow down your site and introduce security risks. Regular updates ensure that you benefit from the latest performance improvements.

10. Consider Using a Custom Solution

If you've implemented all the above strategies and your website speed is still lagging, you may need a more tailored approach. A WordPress website development service can assess your site and provide custom solutions, such as optimizing your database, creating a bespoke theme, or developing performance-focused plugins.

Conclusion

Improving your website speed with WordPress involves a combination of optimizing hosting, themes, plugins, and content. Whether you use off-the-shelf solutions or engage in WordPress development solutions, enhancing site performance will pay off through better user experience and SEO.

By following these steps, you can ensure a more streamlined, fast, and responsive WordPress site that delights your visitors and search engines alike.

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One of the most effective ways to improve your e-commerce website's speed is to use a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a network of servers located around the world that deliver content to visitors based on their geographic location. This reduces latency and improves load times, resulting in a faster and more responsive website.  

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Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up. 

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant. 

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are. 

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds. 

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs. 

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads. 

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.  

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.  

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.  

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages. 

Test what the right daily push notification limit is. 

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users. 

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

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Radiant Info Solutions: Your Expert Partner in IT Network Optimization

Optimize your IT network with Radiant Info Solutions. Expert consultancy and infrastructure solutions for enhanced performance and efficiency in India.

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10 Reasons to Integrate a CDN with Your Website in 2024

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, website performance and user experience are more critical than ever. One powerful tool that can significantly enhance these aspects is a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In this blog post, we will delve into the top 10 reasons why integrating a CDN with your website in 2024 is essential. Whether you are a small business owner or managing a large-scale e-commerce platform, understanding the benefits of using a CDN can help you make an informed decision for your online presence.

1. Improved Website Speed

2. Enhanced User Experience

3. Better SEO Performance

4. Reduced Bandwidth Costs

5. Scalability and Reliability

6. Enhanced Security

7. Global Reach

8. Content Optimization

9. Analytics and Insights

10. Competitive Advantage

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Understanding the Differences: Google Display Network vs Search Network

The Understanding between the Difference of Google Display Network vs Search Network product is a comprehensive guide that aims to provide users with a clear understanding of the distinctions between the Google Display Network (GDN) and the Google Search Network (GSN). This informative resource delves into the intricacies of these two advertising platforms, highlighting their unique features, advantages, and best practices for effective utilization.

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What Is Cloudflare And Why Do I Need It?

Cloudflare is a CDN, or content delivery network, that offers free and paid versions of its service. Cloudflare has several features that make it an essential tool for any website owner interested in protecting their site.

Cloudflare is a CDN or content delivery network.

Essentially, Cloudflare acts as your own personal internet traffic director. Instead of sending all traffic from your website directly to your hosting provider (or wherever else it's going), Cloudflare routes some of that data through its own servers first. This helps speed up performance since the information doesn't have to make so many stops on its way to you—and it also makes sure that malicious users can't exploit any vulnerabilities in the sites they're trying to hack into.

Cloudflare is also a security platform: It helps protect against DDoS attacks by analyzing incoming web traffic and identifying potential threats. And finally, Cloudflare is a domain registrar so that if you ever decide to change hosts (for whatever reason), continuing using their services is easy—you'll just need to transfer ownership over onto another provider's name servers before doing so.

Cloudflare has both a free and paid version.

Cloudflare has a free version for personal, small business, and non-profit websites. The only difference between the paid and free versions is that with the paid version you can optimize your site by adding custom domains (e.g., mywebsite.com), removing ads, adding SSL, etc.

Cloudflare protects your website from threats and malicious activity.

Cloudflare helps you avoid problems like distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, brute-force attacks, and malicious bots by blocking these types of attacks before they impact your site. This can save you a lot of time, money, and headaches in the long run.

In addition to defending against cyberattacks on your website, Cloudflare also blocks fraudulent traffic that could be used as a form of identity theft or other illegal activities such as botnet control panel access or credit card fraud. So whether it's hackers trying to hack into your server or someone who wants to use stolen information from fake accounts created through automated scripts (i.e., bots), Cloudflare offers protection against all online threats.

Cloudflare improves site performance by speeding up loading times.

Cloudflare caches your content, so your site's visitors don't have to wait for your server to send it to them. This process is called “reverse proxying.” Cloudflare's caching is faster than a regular CDN because it's closer to your visitors (so they don't have as far to go), and because it has more capacity than individual CDNs.

Cloudflare has multiple data centers around the world.

Cloudflare has always been a CDN, which means that it caches content on servers around the world. As a result, when they get traffic for a site, it may hit one of their data centers in the U.S., Europe, or Asia. The fact that they have multiple data centers means that if you are located in one of those regions and you request a website from Cloudflare's network—it will be served from your local server instead of from somewhere far away (or even overseas).

As the internet grew up over time so did its infrastructure and now there are plenty of options for storing data across continents regardless of where you host your website or application online. Cloudflare's CDN is designed to serve content as fast as possible by serving static assets such as images, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files, etc. directly out-of-band before any HTTP requests reach your origin servers. This saves time since most websites use at least some static resources on their pages anyway!

Like a VPN, Cloudflare conceals your IP address.

Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that conceals your IP address and helps protect against malicious bots, nefarious intrusions, and identity theft. It also protects against brute-force attacks, DDoS attacks, and malicious activity.

Cloudflare helps protect against brute-force attacks.

Brute force attacks are cyberattacks used to gain access to websites and other online accounts by using large numbers of login attempts in rapid succession. This can be done manually or automatically, using scripts running on thousands of machines simultaneously. If successful, brute force attacks will give attackers access to your personal information (including credit card data), money in your bank account, and even the ability to steal the identity of another person entirely.

You can't always detect threats against your website by looking at your server logs or other common detection methods. Cloudflare has a suite of tools that can help you detect and block threats, including:

Real-time scanning for malicious IP addresses

DNS reputation analysis that looks across the entire internet to determine if domains are safe or dangerous based on where they are located and who is behind them.

Cloudflare isn't just for security; it also offers cache management and SSL certificate options.

Cloudflare offers a free SSL certificate that you can use to secure your website. This means that anyone who visits your site will see the green lock icon in their browser's address bar and know that they're on a secure connection, which is especially important if you collect sensitive information like credit card details or other private data.

Cloudflare's cache management feature can help speed up your website by storing some of the content on its servers so it doesn't have to be retrieved from yours every time someone visits. This cuts down on server load and makes pages load faster for everyone—especially those who are visiting from mobile devices because they tend to have less bandwidth available than desktop computers do (and therefore take longer).

If you have an existing SSL certificate but need help managing it properly, Cloudflare offers several features for managing these types of certificates as well as generating new ones when necessary.

Conclusion

Cloudflare is an effective tool that can help you protect your website. It offers many useful features, including security and performance improvements as well as the ability to cache content. It also makes it easier for people around the world to access your site by concealing your IP address and improving international load times. Reversed Out utilizes Cloudflare for the websites we host. Let us know if you'd like to learn more.

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Revolutionizing Affiliate Marketing Strategies | Tips for Success

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