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How To Improve Your Application Performance

Posted on March 7, 2022August 7, 2025 by Lipsa

Applications are the lifeblood of any business. They have become the driving force of the digital age. As the demand for applications has grown, so has the complexity of these apps. With ever-increasing traffic and user numbers, application performance has becoming a major issue for businesses. To keep up with this demand, businesses need to know how to improve their application performance.

What Is Application Performance?

Application performance is the number of transactions completed in a period of time. In other words, it is how fast your app is performing.

There are two types of application performance:

– First-time user experience – How easy your application is to use on the first-time visit. You want to be sure that new users find it easy to navigate and discover all the features they need without any obstacles.

– Return visitor experience – How easy your application is for return visitors after they leave. They should be able to immediately access their previous information and accomplish what they originally set out to do with no wait time or delays in functionality.

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Different Types Of Applications

Before deep dive to know how to improve your application performance, you need to understand the different types of applications.

There are five different types of applications:

Web apps
Desktop apps
Mobile apps
Back-end (server) apps
Cloud applications

Most Common Performance Issues

Are you struggling to improve application performance? If so, these are some of the most commonly seen performance issues.

1. High Latency

High latency can be a big problem as it causes your application to be more difficult to use and results in higher abandonment rates. It also impacts user satisfaction and experience.

2. Bandwidth Consumption

As your application’s traffic grows, so does the amount of bandwidth it consumes. If you don’t keep up with the demand, your app will slow down dramatically or even crash due to lack of resources. This could cause customers to abandon your app altogether.

3. Server Limitations

If you have no room left on your server for more incoming requests, then your website may have trouble fulfilling current requests leading to abandonment or slower response time for new visitors who come back later on.

4. Application Crashes

Application crashes are a common issue when trying to optimize an application’s performance because they affect the user experience and engagement negatively leading people to abandon or lose interest in the app altogether often resulting in high abandonment rates and low conversion rates of visitors into customers.

How To Improve Your Application’s Performance

The key to improving application performance is making sure the application is constantly being monitored. When your application is constantly being monitored, you will be able to identify bottlenecks and optimize the system accordingly.

Another important step is always maintaining an up-to-date backup of your database so that if something does go wrong with your server, you will have a safe copy of the data in case it needs to be restored. Finally, make sure your website has good uptime by implementing redundancy measures and monitoring your website during peak hours.

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To improve performance of an application we have to perform performance testing.

Performance Testing is a software testing process used for testing the speed, response time, stability, reliability, scalability and resource usage of a software application under a particular workload.

The main purpose of performance testing is to identify and eliminate the performance bottlenecks in the software application. It is a subset of performance engineering and also known as “Performance Testing”.

The focus of Performance Testing is checking a software programs

Speed – Determines whether the application responds quickly
Scalability – Determines the maximum user load the software application can handle.
Stability – Determines if the application is stable under varying loads

Various types of performance testing are there like, Load testing, Stress Testing, Volume testing etc.

Conclusion

Application Performance is the speed at which your application performs. It includes the speed of your website, app, and any other software or service you may be using. Whether you’re using a web application, a mobile application, or a software system, it’s important to keep in mind the impact of poor performance.

We at Andolasoft, testing applications using Jmeter tool to check their load. The objective is to identify performance bottlenecks before the software application goes live.

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When we perform stress testing involves testing an application under extreme workloads to see how it handles high traffic or data processing. The objective is to identify the breaking point of an application.

When we perform volume testing large no. of. Data is populated in a database and the overall software system’s behavior is monitored. The objective is to check software application’s performance under varying database volumes.

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How To Use Transaction In Database Operation In CakePHP 2.X

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Prabhudas

Sometimes we need to use the database transaction for saving the data in the tables for a complex application. Like booking online tickets for any show, movies, bus and planes.

In this case there will be some probability that the data will not be saved in the database due to a reason, like network failure, database inconsistency or table integrity etc.

There might be a case where data is saved partially in some tables and will create data inconsistency. The best example we can take here is ATM. i.e. you got a message that the amount has deducted from your account but you did not receive the money from the ATM.

To handle situations like this the CakePHP 2.x provides a feature transaction. Using transactions we cannot avoid the situation but can protect the harm it causes.

To perform a transaction, a model’s table must be of a data source and type which supports transactions.

All transaction methods must be performed on a model’s Data Source object. To get a model’s Data Source from within the model use:

[code language=”css”]
$dataSource = $this->getDataSource();
[/code]

You can then use the data source to start, commit, or roll back transactions.

[code language=”css”]</pre>
//Below code is responsible for begin the transaction
$dataSource->begin();

// Perform some tasks
if (/*all’s well*/) {
//This will commit the transaction on successful operation
$dataSource->commit();
} else {
//This will rollback the above operation in failure
$dataSource->rollback();
}
[/code]

Ex.

Let’s say we have a situation where we want to create a lead from the contact and send email to a customer after the contact gets saved in the database successfully.

Look at the below code to handle this situation.

So in CakePHP we have a model for tables. So for the contacts table we have “Contact.php” inside the model folder. Inside the “Contact.php” model, write the below code to handle transactions.

[code language=”css”]
//Transaction example
public function saveContactAndSendEmail()
{
$dataSource = $this->getDataSource();
try{
$dataSource->begin();
$aar[‘first_name’] = ‘John’;
$aar[‘last_name’] = ‘Doe’;
$aar[’email’] = ‘john.doe@gmail.com’;
if(!$this->save($aar)){
throw new Exception(__(‘Failed to save contacts data.’));
}else{
//Write the code to create a lead
$leadArr[‘lead_first_name’] = ‘John’;
$leadArr[‘lead_last_name’] = ‘Doe’;
$leadArr[‘lead_email’] = ‘john.doe@gmail.com’;
$Lead = ClassRegistry::init(‘Lead’);
if(!$Lead->save($leadArr)){
throw new Exception(__(‘Failed to save lead detail.’));
}else{
//send email that lead is created
}
}
$dataSource->commit();
}catch(Exception $e) {
//echo $e->getMessage();
$dataSource->rollback();
}
}
[/code]

Conclusion:

To perform a transaction, a model’s table must be of a data source and type which supports transactions. All transaction methods must be performed on a model’s data source object.

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How To Promote Your WordPress Website The Actionable Tips

Posted on February 16, 2022August 7, 2025 by Mandakinee

Developing a WordPress website is not enough but to achieve more traffic and more revenue according to your expectation should be the prime objective. In your WordPress development, your WordPress developer has implemented all necessary latest features, use of premium theme and customization to engage with your target audience, and all the necessary plugins for smooth operation.

You get all excited with your, as you are finally fleshing out the long-held dream to run your online business. You are all ready to open your shop.

In simple terms, your WordPress website is completed and you are ready to rock the party. But you get aero customers.

Even after doing hours of hard work you are not getting customers as you except earlier. After some research and analysis you came to know that the main problem is customers are not able to found your website. Nobody know about your website and you’re offered service. In other words you can say there is lack of visibility of your website.

So, what will be the solution for that and what can you do to get your website visibility?

There are so many questions comes to mind if you will deep drive in to this. But there is one solution for all your questions and that is “Marketing”.

Marketing the one medicine for all your pains. A well marketing plan and strategy can help you to grow your online business and get visibility on your target audiences.

Normally it’s very difficult to find your website and business in the comparative market where thousands of website and business are going live daily. In this situation marketing has great role for your services or product.

To get effective results you need to promote your website. Marketing your website is always the best result to create an audience for your brand and product.

With marketing you are conveying your message to a large group of people. But you need to follow an effective marketing strategy.

Before discussing more about marketing let me tell you some basic things which helps your marketing to reach the goal, like choosing a web development technology, user-friendly and engaging web layout and design and SEO friendliness of website.

If we will talk about technology then, I will recommend “WordPress” for all of you. WordPress is the best CMS platform with custom plugins and best for marketing of any type of websites. Let me share in details

Also Read- Reasons Why Choose WordPress for Web Development

Why WordPress is best for Marketing?

WordPress is basically search engine friendly and that helps your website to gets more traffic.

A WordPress site gets an average of 23 billion page views each month. The number grows each passing day.

There are 75 billion websites that run on WordPress.

You can set your entire marketing strategy with the WordPress dashboard using the plugin and integration when needed.

And the best thing is you don’t have to become an expert in coding.

Also Read – How Much Does A WordPress Website Cost?

Let’s come to the main topic,

How to Market your WordPress Website?

Any marketer can develop posts, manage calendars, increase search traffic, and post the content directly into WordPress.

So, here are a few marketing tips you can follow to market your WordPress website.

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1. Develop Mobile Responsive WordPress Theme:

Now a days all the marketing activities results are completely depends upon the bid daddy Google. Google keeping eye on every websites activities and resulting those websites which has good content, layout and user centric information. Here website contents also play a great role in marketing.

Google loves mobile-friendly websites. So you need to make your WordPress site optimized with your mobile.

Go for the themes that are marked as mobile-friendly. Most of them are optimized to some level but not all of them are completely optimized.

2. Develop Quality content and never forget to Market your Content:

Good content is important for achieving success on your website. By content, it refers to both visual and textual form. If the website is a blog or magazine, then it’s obvious that the main focus will be on text.

If you have a portfolio site, then visual content should be put on the maximum level.

Quality content refers to:

Longform
Informative
Shareable
Engaging
Relevant to your niche and to the topic content
Well written
Competent

It is important to keep your content unique and fresh. This will create more traffic to your website.

It is also important to have a captivating image with a catchy headline along with a caption that describes the post and attracts more traffic to your website.

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When you offer your audience something valuable to read or view creates trust and a strong relationship with your audience.

How to get the most from Content Marketing?

Filling up 100 papers or flooding your page with videos and images doesn’t add any value. Content marketing needs to be properly put up and approached as any other marketing collateral strategy.

(Source – mekshq.com)

Develop a Content Calendar: A content calendar helps you to be on track by publishing daily with content pushed back to any particular goal or theme.To remain on a particular schedule, develop and follow the content calendar. Maximize the content marketing efforts by scheduling posts to share on social media.
Make different types of content: Don’t just stick to a particular form of content rather focus on various types of content. Always develop fresh blogs and follow the trend.

3. Develop an XML Sitemap:

Website crawling and indexing is important factor to come in the search results of major search engines. So before coming to search result your website must be crawl and index by search engine like Google. XML sitemap helps the web pages to crawl by search engines.

WordPress automatically develops the sitemap for you, but those are not optimized. One can easily and quickly optimize the sitemap with a plugin like Google XML Sitemap Generator. It is a handy tool that not only helps you to maintain your track on the index pages but it also tells Google about your update.

Whenever you post any new blog or create any changes, it notifies Google to re-crawl your website. This helps to improve the ranking of your site in the search results.

4. Customized Permalinks:

Your content can be optimized by ensuring the URLs of the blog post have relevant keywords. With WordPress you can create more permalink, but before you push it live make sure it is rich in keywords and readable.

You need to optimize these permalink that reflects the content easily to your visitors.

5. SEO

The first page of Google has become a refined and crucial part, in comparison to the second and other pages. From the second page and beyond it is considered as the dark web for some. Hence a strong SEO presence is important in the present day.

Also, you can go for the paid search campaign, but put more focus on the organic SEO.

According to a report by Business2community.com 70%-80% users don’t follow paid advertising.

How to gain more from SEO?

When someone hears about the term “SEO“, it leads them to think about the experts and the obscurities. But the only secret to success is time and consistency. It states you can do it on your own by following some best practices.

Good SEO helps to generate leads. You need to put the information in the marketing database. So you can later push the content.

Include image: Whenever you add an image to your content, it helps in visitor engagement and that tend to increases the search engine ranking.
Repurpose Content: Rather than developing new content every time, you can create some changes to the old content. Make the most from your old one, all you need to do is update and republish the last blogs. This increases visitor traffic.
Email Marketing: For any business, email marketing is an effective way to stay connected with prospects. You also need to address their contact and behavioral information.

To capture this information, you have to gain attention in new ways so you can get more people to website.

Rich snippets are an effective way to increase search traffic. But many times they are ignored by marketers as they require some coding to create.