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Firewall – Protects you computer from malicious software by identifying and destroying suspicious data. This protects your website by stopping data from being added for malicious activity.

Strong Passwords – If people use strong passwords, it makes it much harder for people to hack their account. Counting only numbers and letters, a password with 3 characters has 46,656 different possible…

Hacking – If people try to hack a website, via means such as denial of service attacks, the website will run a lot slower than normal, or may stop working altogether. If the website doesn’t have adequate protection in place, users personal details may be in jeopardy. However, if the website doesn’t use personal details, this is not as much of an issue.

Viruses – If a virus gets implanted into a…

U28 Server Side Factors

There are also a lot of factors in the server side of the webpage that affects performance.

Bandwidth Allowance – If the bandwidth allowance is exceeded, performance will be severely reduced.

Number of Hits – If a webpage gets a lot of hits or views in a short period of time, the server may be unable to deal with everyone at the same time, so performance for a lot of people will drop.

The file types that you are trying to download also has an effect on how long it will take. For example, Bitmaps, Gifs and Wav files will take less time than a JPG, Vector or MP3/MP4 file. However, the reason the first three will take less time is that they are of lower quality and thus are a smaller file.