Is your site ready for the increasing traffic?

Each year, e-commerce grows and more and more sites, online services, applications, platforms, etc. appear. This interest of businesses in the online environment leads to an increase in web services with a diverse application, their demand, as well as competition.

Traffic and visits to most online stores continue to increase. How to prepare and what actions you can take, you will read in this article.

How to tell if your site is overloaded?
The signs that you may notice on your site if there is excessive load are:

    • Slow loading of the home page. If the loading speed is slow, then your page will load for more than 2.5 seconds. Every second above that can refuse your customers to continue waiting and, accordingly, they will be redirected to a competing site. 
    • Loading errors. This is a problem that you may encounter and is extremely unpleasant for the visitor who has chosen your site. If a white screen with an error occurs when loading, then you have a serious problem, which in most cases is due to the hosting server from which the site is loaded. We recommend that you choose a Cloud VPS server to have your own server resources and quickly eliminate the causes of errors that have occurred.
    • Unstable results. Unstable results can often occur when loading. For some users, pages load quickly and smoothly, but at the same time, for another user, it may take more than 10 seconds to load. Most often, the reasons lie in the unstable behavior of the selected hosting server.

Check your business's hosting profile
We recommend that you often check the readings and statistics in your hosting profile. When accessing the control panel of your hosting plan, it is a good idea to monitor the server parameters. Pay attention to the graphs that are provided to you. Often, hosting providers do not provide users with access to peak loads and consumed server parameters. This can happen if you use shared hosting, which often turns out to be the basis of a number of speed problems and downtime on your site. 

Checking and analyzing
There are external analysis tools that are often used. Platforms like Google Analytics are free and available to use. There are a number of other tools that you can use to track your site's speed and the reasons for slow loading.
The feedback you receive from users should also not be underestimated, because they can signal a problem that bothers them to use your services. Casual visitors, as well as your loyal customers, have built-in expectations when working with any site. This way, they can easily determine if there is a problem with speed, page opening, errors, instability, or security gaps. 

How to control the increase in site traffic? 
The answer is one - you should not control the traffic to the site! Of course, the more people visit your site, the better it will be for your business. The only thing you need to be prepared for is a preliminary plan to meet the rapid changes and not let this lead to problems. 

The load on the site can happen very naturally – with a strong advertising campaign or good promotions, but sometimes completely unexpectedly. At Clowbe, we are sure that proper and thorough monitoring is of great importance for preparing and preventing peak moments of visits and traffic to the site. Your projects should work quickly, securely and without failures regardless of the load.  

Using Cloud VPS hosting from Clowbe you will have an individual server just for your site. Clowbe's VPS hosting plans allow you to plan more server resources for upcoming campaigns or choose a new suitable hosting plan along with the development of your site. This way, your customers will be satisfied and will receive the expected loading speed even at the busiest times.

Choose fast Cloud VPS hosting from Clowbe for your online store, which will help you be better than the competition and be more preferred by users. Browse the plans on our site and make your choice.