Launching a new site, or upgrading an existing site? Website hosting, web development, design & website performance are all essential core foundations for any successful Maine online business. When choosing the services to establish your online presence, or upgrading an existing site, knowledge of the different hardware, software & application solutions available is a good place to start.
Dirigo Digital provides start-ups & existing Maine websites complete hosting, web development & design solutions. Our experts are proficient at coding multiple server configurations & software applications (front & backend) that deliver highly-efficient, digitally-stunning websites. We have the ability to improve the performance of websites that may have become, “digitally decayed,” or outdated with time & we offer new website launches the best right from the get-go.
We are your state-of-the-art full stack developers & with over 25 years coding experience, we have mastered a multitude of programming languages & web applications. Our benchmarked experience & versatility allows Dirigo to provide our Maine clients several advantages that are typically only privy to fortune 500 companies.
Web Server & Hosting
Not all websites are created equal. The web server processes requests from the World Wide Web, “www,” for users through Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) & is like your site’s engine. A web server’s hardware processes coding & other software applications at varying speeds & efficiencies depending on the resources available for allocation & the coding methods utilized within application protocols.
Having access to server tools, SQL databases & the ability to write PHP, Python & Ruby coding & commands within the hardware & API software environments are important factors when determining your website’s hosting & server strategies. Dirigo offers a variety of server levels & resources, such as, high-performance NVMe Solid State Drives (SSD) for storage & ultra-fast 32 GB RAM, 16 vCPUs processing speeds.
Website Taxonomy & Web Dev
Planning the structure, responsiveness & layout of your website infrastructure is of upmost importance. Before a fresh design & theme hits the web, a well-planned site structure & organization of the site’s content should be clearly mapped out. This is beneficial for real-time users & search engine spiders that categorize websites on the search engine result pages.
It’s essential for all Maine business owners to ensure their website’s coding & software applications are up-to-date & secured. Our web development team safeguards websites by integrating several server-side commands & coding techniques that empower sites with a current, secure & best practices web environment.
Website Design
Got an idea you’d like to make a reality & publish on your website? Let’s get digital! Napoleon Hill said it best & is spot-on when it comes to Dirigo Digital web design, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Dirigo produces immersive media & designs for large-scale enterprise websites with thousands of interacting members to serving-up fresh web designs for the corner store looking to maintain their neighborhood charm & atmosphere on their business website.
We are open to working with all industries & truly enjoy making your Maine vision a reality. At Dirigo, we love trailblazing & bringing new ideas to fruition; We discover new ways to express our client’s digital mission by combining our years of technical experience with our proven, benchmarked www triumphs.
Website Performance 🚀
When it comes to website performance, Ricky Bobby put it best, “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” Not only should your Maine website be secure & well organized, website speed is a fundamental component of any successful website in today’s competitive ranking environment. Google first deployed speed as a ranking factor in their ever-evolving algorithm in 2010. Your website speed, or load time, can be measured with cutting-edge web dev tools like Google PageSpeed Insights.
Delving deeper into factors that determine a website’s performance, quality & ranking, implementation of the web developer tool, Google Lighthouse is very useful at measuring vital performance metrics like First Contentful Paint, Largest Contentful Paint, Total Blocking Time & Cumulative Layout Shift. Mastering these metrics during your website development is crucial & has a direct impact on the quality you are presenting to your website customers & search engine spiders.
First Contentful Paint (FCP)
FCP measures the time it takes, in milliseconds, to render the first content that is presented to the web user from the programing interface that is controlled by the the Document Object Model (DOM).
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
LCP measures the perceived time it takes to load a website’s main content into the users viewport (the part of the user’s window that is visible during the website loading process). LCP measures an image or a text block’s loading time, depending on what is coded to be served-up first to the real time user’s viewport.
Total Blocking Time (TBT)
TBT is a metric that measures how long it takes for a site to become first-interactive with a real time user. The bar is set high at 50 milliseconds & must be accomplished after the FCP and before the web page becomes first-interactive.
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
CLS measures how much shifting, or shiftiness (page jumpiness) the website presents to real time users during web page load. Websites that are very stable present the best scores for this Core Web Vital. The CLS metric is influenced by sizing changes of images & videos during load-time, page injections such as pop-ups & the unsteady loading of a site’s code elements & applications.
Discover more about Dirigo.Digital’s PageSpeed Performance score below.
