Compatibility We work hard to make sure that our websites look great on modern browsers and old browsers too. We know that your visitors don’t always have access to the latest browsers. Progressive Enhancement We use progressive enhancement techniques to serve content differently based on the browser used. When visitors use older browsers, they might [...]
Big Pipes We use the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) to serve your website from servers located in 59 cities across 29 countries. With this system we’re able to transfer up to 40 gigabits per second and respond to 100,000 requests per second. Our system is optimized for low latency and high data transfer [...]
Made in the USA Good Gallery is a Texas company. All our source code is written by programmers located in the United States. We never use offshore programmers. Additionally, our entire support team is located in USA. We're doing our part to help the economy by creating local jobs. We also contribute to society by [...]
Eating Our Own Dog Food In 1988, a Microsoft employee sent an email titled "Eating our own Dogfood" that challenged other employees to increase the internal usage of Microsoft's own products. That phrase has gone on to be a popular way to refer to companies that use their own products. It's also known as "dogfooding." [...]
Sad Story We’re sad to say that we don’t work out. Most of us are chubby and pale. But that's because we spend all our free time in front of computers working on Good Gallery. Even though we don’t have six-pack abs, we're a crazy-dedicated team working to create the best website builder anywhere. This is [...]
Web Pages Are Getting Bigger In 2011, most web pages were smaller than 1MB. In 2016, the average size grew to 2.2MB. And in 2018, the average size was 3MB. With the availability of greater bandwidth across all devices, websites around the world have taken advantage of those improved speeds by adding more content to [...]
Protocol Support HTTP/2 is a new version of the HTTP network protocol. The new protocol helps our websites load faster and use fewer server resources. Good Gallery supports HTTP/2. Benefits The HTTP/2 technology was developed to offer a faster way to deliver website content. Given our focus on speed and performance, it’s only natural that [...]
Supported Photo Formats For visitors who use the Chrome browser, we present photos in WebP format. All other visitors are presented with size-optimized JPG photos. This is part of our dynamic serving strategy and why our websites are crazy fast. WebP WebP is an image format that offers incredible compression characteristics. In other words, those [...]
Screaming Fast Servers Good Gallery contracts with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing you with access to the best cloud-based website hosting platform. AWS offers various levels of availability and different server configurations based on the budgets of their customers. Good Gallery uses R3 instances—the latest generation of Amazon EC2 memory-optimized servers. One of the things [...]
Amazon Web Services Good Gallery servers are provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). With their networked services, your Good Gallery website is on servers located around the world. Cloud-Based AWS is a cloud-based platform that offers the best computing power, storage, and content delivery available anywhere. We chose this platform because of our ability to [...]
