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Category: Joomla

Published: 16 February 2015

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If you visit the Joomla extensions site you can be over whelmed by the number of extensions you can download and install. Whether you need a forum, photo gallery, chat, document management or backup extension you will find it at the website.

Before you get over excited and download and install every extension under the sun we have put together a list of really useful, tried and tested extensions which we believe will add real value to your website in terms of improving it's functionality and the day to day management of the website.

Akeeba Backup

Akeeba Backup is one of those must have extensions which is essential for everyone running a Joomla site. The developers of Akeeba Backup have been around since 2006 and the extension has been downloaded thousands of times over the past few years plus it has some amazing reviews from people who use it.

The extension comes in two flavors, the free version and the paid version where you signup for a one year support subscription which costs only 40 Euros.

What Akeeba Backup basically does is allow you to easily create a backup of your whole website from the administrator area. The backup will take a snapshot of all the core Joomla files, extensions, modules, templates, MYSQL database and store them in a single file. Taking a backup is simple and you can also schedule backups to run every day, week or month. Akeeba Backup also allows you to easily restore the website in a couple of minutes. If your site gets hacked or the hosting company closes down or maybe something goes wrong when you upgrade your site or a 3rd party extension you can always easily recover the whole site using this really useful extension.

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Read more: Five Useful Extensions For Joomla

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Category: Joomla

Published: 07 February 2015

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Is your Joomla website loading slowly? If yes then you can make changes to the site to make it load faster which will in turn increase conversions and also keep visitors and Google happy.

The internet is an unforgiving place, you only get one chance to make an impression and if you get it wrong it's very difficult to recover from it.

A fast loading website plays an important role in the overall user experience the visitor expects to see when they visit a website.

Many other factors influence user experience and conversions at a website but speed has now become an important factor especially since more people now use mobile devices to visit websites. Google also uses website speed as a ranking signal in its algorithm which can influence a sites position in the search engine listings.

Read more: Useful Tips To Speed Up Your Joomla Website