Thursday, July 30, 2015

The world currently enjoys a two-billion-cup-a-day habit

The world currently enjoys a two-billion-cup-a-day habit by Vito Donatiello blog

How can we ensure that we get that caffeine fix in a turbulent climate?

BBC News article

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Understanding Cholesterol

Understanding LDL and HDL Cholesterol by Vito Donatiello blog

Cholesterol is an organic molecule. It is a sterol (or modified steroid), a lipid molecule and is biosynthesized by all animal cells because it is an essential structural component of all animal (not plant or bacterial) cell membranes that is required to maintain both membrane structural integrity and fluidity. […] In addition to its importance within cells, cholesterol also serves as a precursor for the biosynthesis of steroid hormones, bile acids, and vitamin D.

[from Wikipedia]

What Is Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is naturally present in cell walls or membranes everywhere in the body. The body uses cholesterol to produce many hormones, vitamin D, and bile acids that help to digest fat. Too much cholesterol in your bloodstream can lead to narrowing of arteries in the body that cause heart attacks, strokes, and peripheral artery disease.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Test your website speed

Test your website speed by Vito Donatiello blog

How fast your website is in China?

There are plenty of online tools to test your website load time from USA, UK, India but very few have options to test your page load time from China. If you are running a business in China or expecting visitors and if your website hosted out of China then most probably your website load time would be poor.

Before you start optimizing you should check the page load time from multiple cities in China.

  • Website Test behind the Great Firewall of China: Websitepulse
  • Instantly test your website speed, in real browsers from 23 locations worldwide: Dotcom-tools
  • Run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds: Webpagetest
  • Analyze your site’s speed and make it faster. GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it: Gtmetrix
  • Web Site Performance Test: you can conduct a real-time Instant Test for an individual Web page to test its performance from an external node location: Gomeznetworks
  • Full Web Page Test. Analyze web page and optimize website performance. Optimize website by checking impact of scripts, images and other resources loaded via sub-domains on this web page: Site24×7
  • Pingdom Website Speed Test: enter a URL to test the load time of that page, analyze it and find bottlenecks: Pingdom