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Lessons From Optimizing the MindTouch Web Platform
Here at MindTouch we’re focused on creating the ideal software help SaaS. Like any service, speed is a major factor in user satisfaction: How quickly are pages loading? Is every action, from searching...
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Speeding up asset delivery from your Rails app
We all want our pages to load faster. Though the big picture of web performance is quite complex, payload size and location are two factors that can be minimized with a little effort. Here, we’ll look...
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Animation Equals Latency
This post is by Eric Higgins, a Software Engineer at Optimizely.Would you believe me if I told you that you — the speed-and-scale-loving developers you all are — have willingly introduced...
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Talking the talk of web performance
Working in the performance industry you’re surrounded by many technical terms. Of course, we need to have many terms and phrases to be able to communicate about specifics. There’s no doubt that much of...
View ArticleCaching everything – step by step
Over the last five years we’ve seen a surge in web traffic. As you have surely read a hundred times before, handling the traffic in a timely manner is very important. Of the many tools you’ll need in...
View ArticleBreaking Performance Silos
It is amazing that, while performance is the result of every aspect of the system, performance as a discipline consists of multiple silos and different groups of performance-related specialists have...
View Article4 Tips to Speed Up Your Responsive Website on Mobile
Introduction:When it comes to multi device web design, you really can’t beat responsive. Websites built using responsive design techniques such as fluid grids, flexible images and media queries are...
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#SAM2013 Round Up
This year’s Speed Awareness Month was amazing. Compared to last year, we saw the following metrics increase:91.01% Unique Visitors70.81% Visits41.63% Pageviews10.75% New VisitsWhat this says is that...
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Making Your Website Scrape-Proof: How to Thwart Content Thieves
As a website owner, you probably love the idea of thousands of people coming to your site every day. But what if most of those requests were automated, coming from bots and scrapers that wanted to...
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Moving past page load time
Thinking past Page Load Time In the past, the performance of a website was measured by checking how long it took for an event called ‘window.onload’ to trigger, this measurement was dubbed the “Page...
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