Boost your web site speed - Redesign of Feria Apícola

We have redesigned the web site Feria Apícola 2009. Feria Apícola 2009 is a fair from the 5th until the 8th of March in 2009. Its poster is already available. Moreover, 2009 poster terms and conditions has been published as well. During the next day more information will be loaded.

2008 web site navigation, as well as some content has been used during the redesign. Exactly the content of the sections links, Pastrana and foundation. The code has been refractored almost completely doing the website faster and more appropriate for search engines. The next table shows speed measurements which compare the old and the new website:

	Load time 2008 (s)	Load 2009 (s)	Boost percentage
Cartel	0,68	0,52	23,94%
Saludos	4	0,46	88,40%
Programa de Conferencias	3,86	0,48	87,69%
Programa oficial de actos	0,76	0,49	35,97%
Feria virtual	3,72	0,47	87,33%
Bases de concursos	3,94	0,49	87,51%
Fundación	3,72	0,48	87,21%
Carteles Anteriores	4,25	4,09	3,58%
Conferencias	3,82	0,48	87,52%
Pastrana	11,07	0,76	93,17%
Ferias anteriores	0,62	0,49	21,51%
Enlaces	1,02	0,49	52,16%

An average load time improvement of 63%, in some pages up to 87%, has been achieved between the 2008 fair Web site and 2009 fair Web site. This redesign and refactor process have been done by Softamo. If you want your website to load faster, contact us.

How can I find information in Cerepedia?

Cerepedia allows several ways to retrieve our company's information. You can use:

• Search. The traditional search as we are used with Google. Just type what you are searching for in a text field and Cerepedia will show you the more relevant items. Cerepedia allows you to search not just title, introduction and content field of each page but it indexes also the page's tags and attachements. If you include a PDF or Word document, Cerepedia extracts its content and make it available to the search engine. That it is right, Cerepedia will search inside your company files as well.

• Tags. Sometimes called keywords too. Cerepedia allows you to label a page with multiple tags. This tags can be created by just one user or by multiple users. A shared vocabulary will emerge from this collaborative activity. We could for example describe a page with words such as visit card, error, client, John Smith ...

  The next image shows how items labeld with the tag barcelona are retrieved inside Cerepedia. In this example, there is only one page which was created on the 22th July by Sergio del Amo, has been viewed four times and it is rated with three stars.

  
• Categories.In Cerepedia, we can create hierarchally ordered categories. A page can belong to one (e.g. marketing) or none. Our experience has shown us that categories help to organize information in a rigid way, normally with a vocabullary shared by everyone in the company. For example in Softamo, we use a category for each project, so that it is really intuitive to filter information which belongs to a particular project.
• User filter. Sometimes it is important to filter just the information created by a particular user. Often, you want to navigate just through the information you created. Other times you want to navigate through the information your co-worker created. For example, you know your coworker worked with that particular client. You want just to see the information he created because that client's information you are looking for may probably be inside his stuff. Cerepedia allows us to visualize all pages created by us or other co-worker easily.
• Unread pages filter Cerepedia notifies each user if there is any new page in the system or if there is an old page where someone has left a new comment. Users are up to date to everything which happens in the company.

But with no doubt the best retrieval feature of Cerepedia is the possibility to combine all the previouly described mechanismus to find the information we were looking for. We can create filters which combine search, tags, categories and users, to ensure we find exactly what we are looking for.

The next screenshot shows an example of a filter which finds all pages created by Sergio del Amo and tagged with cerepedia :