Your mobile site is slower than you think
.Net magazine invited me to write about our recent study into mobile load times, and you know me — I never turn down a chance to talk about mobile performance. I won’t give away the article here, but...
View ArticleThis is your brain on a slow website [INFOGRAPHICS]
At Strangeloop, we talk a lot about the business value of web performance, but we’re just as interested in the psychology behind those metrics. Our marketing team recently put together this fun set of...
View ArticleOnly 1 out of 5 top ecommerce sites uses RUM. Why?
Real user monitoring (RUM) is a white-hot topic in our industry right now. For those new to the topic, RUM is monitoring technology that records all user interaction with a website or client...
View ArticleThe average web page has grown 20% in just six months
The HTTPArchive celebrates its second birthday this month, and it seems fitting to check in and take a quick snapshot of a typical web page. Not surprisingly, pages are bigger. But surprisingly, pages...
View ArticleWe’re teaming up with Amazon Web Services to bring advanced FEO to CloudFront...
There’s a great quote from Geoffrey Smalling, CTO at Wine.com, in this Strangeloop case study: Anyone who tells you there is [a single magic bullet] does not have a deep understanding of the myriad...
View ArticleBrowser innovation and the 14 rules for faster loading websites: Revisiting...
This is the final post in a series in which I’ve been addressing a question that was put to me by a customer a few months ago: “Aren’t many of the web performance rules described by Steve Souders in...
View ArticleHow to double the speed of your web applications [VIDEO]
If you’ve been following this site for any period of time, you probably don’t need to watch this video. But if you’ve been looking for a tool to explain the core tenets of performance optimization —...
View ArticleWeb Performance Today podcast: Theo Schlossnagle
Theo Schlossnagle is a geek’s geek. If you’ve ever attended one of his many Velocity talks around the world, you know that you’re in the presence of someone who’s been thinking about performance longer...
View ArticleNew findings: Typical leading European commerce site takes 7.04 seconds to load
Last fall, at Velocity London, I had a really great talk with Stephen Thair, who is a UK-based web performance consultant, Velocity committee member, WebPerfDays organizer, and all-around knowledgeable...
View ArticleMore new findings: Top ecommerce sites are 22% slower than they were last year
Let me say that again, because this is a staggering fact: The world’s top ecommerce sites are 22% slower than they were last year. In December 2011, the median load time for a site in the Alexa Retail...
View ArticleCase study: How effective are CDNs for mobile visitors?
Substitute “measuring mobile performance” for “herding cats” in this video, and you’ve pretty much nailed the challenge we’re up against every day. Fortunately, we like cats. Experiment: Measuring the...
View ArticleThree reasons why we need to invest in web performance for seniors
Despite the fact that the over-65 demographic is poised to generate a new ecommerce boom, current websites still discriminate against seniors by posing serious usability problems, including slow load...
View ArticleToo fast? Believe it or not, there is such a thing.
I love getting my Monday-morning Alertbox fix from Jakob Nielsen. This morning’s piece talks about a little-discussed usability problem: when user interfaces are too fast. (But note that Nielsen points...
View ArticleNew findings: Typical leading ecommerce site takes 5.3 seconds to become...
It’s fall, which means it’s time for Radware’s quarterly State of the Union for Ecommerce Performance! If you’re not familiar with these reports, here’s a quick backgrounder: Every three months, we...
View ArticleLooking for VC funding? Then your website needs to be at least this fast.
Last spring, Steve Souders wrote this great post explaining why web performance optimization (WPO) is poised to become the next SEO. In it, he cited top tech venture capitalist Fred Wilson, principal...
View ArticleYou are the worst judge of your web site’s performance. Here’s why.
After writing about VCs and load time benchmarks a couple of days ago, I was struck by this comment made by Fred Wilson, which I kind of glossed over the first few times I read it: “I think that power...
View ArticleIf children are the most demanding web users, why are their sites so slow?
I have two little boys. They aren’t school-age yet, but I’m already fascinated by everything I’m reading about how technology may be implemented in their future classrooms. Last week, I came across...
View ArticleAre your website’s performance goals audacious enough?
“We want you to be able to flick from one page to another as quickly as you can flick a page on a book. So we’re really aiming very, very high here… at something like 100 milliseconds.” ~Urs Hölzle,...
View ArticleShop.org Performance Index: Should you care how you rank?
I’m on my way to the Shop.org Annual Summit and looking forward to sitting in on some promising-sounding sessions. The directory of speakers is a who’s who of the internet retail community, and since I...
View ArticleTechCrunch: The slowest tech blog, or one of the fastest? Turns out, it’s both.
When I started writing this post, my intent was to do a bit of performance benchmarking for leading tech blogs. But what started off as a standard benchmarking exercise turned into a great opportunity...
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