interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
Hosting with interGen gives you so much more than just server space for your website! In addition to all of the features that come with our managed hosting services, our Subscription Service provides our clients with key performance tools you won't find with the typical web hosting company.
With each new client, we do a performance analysis to make sure that your site is secure and fast - two metrics that matter to both your users and the search engines. We also make sure that you have access the analytics that provide you measurable data about when, where, and how users are finding your website.
Below you can find a list of all the standard performance tools that we include on all our clients websites. With each new client, we do a performance analysis to make sure that your site is secure and fast - two metrics that matter to both your users and the search engines. We also make sure that you have access to an analytics dashboard that provides you measurable data about when, where, and how users are finding your website.
A custom 404 page turns a dead end into an opportunity, keeping visitors on your site, supporting your brand, and even boosting your SEO.
Why Bother with a Custom 404 Page?
Custom 404 pages are a small touch with a big impact. One client of ours even saw visitors stay longer and a slight bump in conversions after adding one. interGen adds a generic custom 404 page to each of our new clients sites that sends people to the main site navigation and/or search tool if they hit a broken link. If you have some extra touches you'd like us to include on your 404 page to showcase your brand, we're happy to add that as well!
In today's digital age, a strong online presence is crucial. At interGen, we help our clients thrive online with top-notch web development and hosting services To that ennd, every new website that interGen builds includes an integration with Google Search Console (GSC). Beginning in 2024, we are confirming that all our hosting clients have integrated with GSC - even if you came to use with a site built from another developer.
What is Google Search Console?
GSC is a free service by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results. It offers a range of tools and reports for measuring site traffic, performance, and issues, enabling site owners to optimize their content and enhance their search engine rankings.
In 2018, Google announced algorithm updates that place far more emphasis on page speed and loading response times than ever before. In addition, 53% of users will leave a website that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. We enable gzip compression on all our clients' websites to save bandwidth and speed up your site.
What is GZIP Compression?
GZip is a form of data compression - it takes a chunk of data and makes it smaller. It's a hidden process that happens as a website is loading. The end user should be completely unaware that it is happening; the browser takes care of it completely behind the scenes.
Favicons are quite possibly the smallest part of your site, but it's attention to detail that makes a site stand out. We generate favicons for our client's websites based on the simplest version or element of their logo. If you do not have a logo (or your logo is too complex to work as a favicon), we generate one using the branding information we have about your site.
What is a favicon?
Favicons are small - square or round images, usually 16×16 pixels, used by web browsers to visually and quickly identify a website. They show up on the browser address bar's left side or in the tab. You have probably seen them before, even if you don't know what they are.
We install (and automatically renew) SSL certificates on all our client's websites. We also have configured your site to "force SSL," making sure that your website loads securely every time it loads.
What is an SSL Certificate?
SSL ( which stands for Secure Sockets Layer) is a digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity and encrypts information sent through that site. It is the global standard for security technology on websites.
Every new website that interGen builds includes an integration with Google Analytics. However, some of our clients' websites were inherited from other developers and did not come to use with that tracking data installed.
Beginning in 2020, we have confirmed that every one of our clients has Google Analytics integrated with your site - whether we built it 10 years ago or you came to us as a customer just last week. If you want access to your Google Analytics data, just send an email to
Captcha's are that strange field at the bottom of many website forms (contact us, registration, etc.). The field asks you to prove that you are not a robot. Sometimes completing the captcha is as simple as checking the "I am not a robot" check box. Other times it requires getting a grid of nine pictures. You have to identify all the pictures of a fire hydrant or cross walk or bus or truck or... you get the idea.
When captchas were first developed they were often simple math problems or squiggly letters. In recent years, Google's reCaptcha has been the dominant offering on websites and for several good reasons: