💡 Idea#
The best idea's create connections, provide real world solutions and communities.
🌟 Domain#
After going trough numerous of domain registrars in the last couple years the search for a registrar that could offer a stable home to register and bring domains to from aftermarkets grew after having to deal with numerous of accounts and payment followup.
Eventually Dynadot came out to be my choice however Cloudflare also shared first place.
This Evaluation took into account the following platform aspects.
- Cheap / Stable Price for Standard LTD's ( .com, .org, .net, .xyz )
- Whois Privacy enabled by default with no extra cost
- Number of extra domain supported LTD's
- A normall UI without upselling and vendor lock in
Domain Hunting Tips and Tricks#
Finding the right domain can be challenging most .com's have been registered and parked for reselling way before the modern internet came into existence. As a solution new LTDs offer a way to get the right keyword however SEO can be an issue and for general consumers understanding new LTDs is far from common knowledge. Preferably finding an available .com, .org and .net is recommended since these are generally well know in the consumer space.
1. Domain Competition Grid.#
Once you settled on the name or keyword you would like to build the project under. Visit the keyword .com .net .org in a browser and check if a competitor is already using this brandname to build something similar. if the domains are parked and for sale there might be a landing page provided by some of the big aftermarkets for you to get an idea of the offering price or a way to submit a bid to the domain owner.
2. Synonyms and Slang#
If the domain competition grid comes up empty or a competitor already is running a service finding a synonym can be useful and repeat the competition grid avoid changing one letter in the word since this can confuse the consumer again. Slang can also be difficult to use properly but the upside can be huge, if the slang becomes popular and integrated in the common vocabulary.
3. Aftermarket and Expired Domains#
Most dictionary keywords will be parked as they were the first to fall victim to dictionary scraping
To look for a great domain that will cost you an extra buck the following aftermarkets should be checked for parked domains Sedo, Dan, Namecheap, Dynadot and Gandi
A great source to check for dropped domains and expired domains also a "complete" after market database is * expireddomains .net * also a great source to get inspired for new brands.
4. Exotic LTDs#
In general i would definitely suggest avoiding these enless it makes sense with the targeted consumers location. From a Global LTD perspective .xyz and .io are still common to have a look at registering.
5. General Avoidance Tips#
- Plural or 's domain
- +15 characters
- Hypens
- IDN's
- Generally avoid new TLD's
- Single character changes
🚀 Launch#
🧱 BUILDING#
This is where Flamewerk comes in a Fast Language Agnostic Multipurpose startup template with zero cost in mind.
🧑💻 HOSTING#
A-OS supports multiple hosts as of writing Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, Netlify, Amazon WebServices and Google Cloud are supported however every static host provider can be used.
No more vender lockin since migrating to a new host doesn't take longer than 10 minutes.
I enjoyed partaking in the cloudflare beta and found the UI most intuitive and the grab a repository and build to work flawless a small speed shootout also showed that Cloudflare's hosting is most reliable at serving pages at lightning speed.
The factors that make choosing the right static host:
- Price factoring number of Builds, Sites, Seats
- Page Load Speed
- Ease of Github Build integration
- Concurrent builds
- Number of sites
- Requests
- Bandwidth
Cloudflare claims and these are verified:
- Fastest network: run your site on the Cloudflare edge, milliseconds from end users – up to 115% faster than competing platforms.
- Incredibly scalable: with one of the world’s largest networks, Cloudflare can absorb traffic from the most visited sites.
- Always secure: SSL works out of the box, so you never have to worry about provisioning certificates.
- Stay ahead of the curve: support for the latest web standards with HTTP/3, QUIC, image compression out of the box, and more.
- With deep Git integration, Cloudflare Pages works the way developers work. Just tell us your build command (e.g. npm run build) and we’ll take care of the rest, logs included.
🧪 TESTING#
Webpage performance is one of the most important factors when it comes to website optimization. A slow-loading website can leave visitors frustrated and may even cause them to leave your site before it has loaded completely.
There are many different ways to test how quickly a webpage loads on your browser, but the Lighthouse page speed testing tool is one of the simplest ways to get an overview of how well your site is performing.
The best way to improve webpage loading time is by reducing the number of requests that are made per page view, minifying assets that are included in each request, and unblocking any JavaScript libraries that may be blocked by default in older browsers.
🤹 PERFORMANCE#
Since all pages will be hosted as SSR, the performance is out of the box very fast. The other focus points on Lighthouse testing include accessibility, best practices and SEO. Again out the box these score near perfect but can be improved using extra modules like, Robot for creating a custom Robot.txt and Sitemap for including or excluding pages with a custom sitemap.
Mobile Optimization still in the works Performance varies between 10 to 15 points.For future optimization testing i will be looking into Googles Core Web Vitals report for fixing poor user experiences on your site.
Why page performance matters#
Longer page load times have a severe effect on bounce rates. For example:
- If page load time increases from 1 second to 3 seconds, bounce rate increases 32%
- If page load time increases from 1 second to 6 seconds, bounce rate increases by 106%
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