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Open-Sourcing Mobitest 20 Mar 2012 | 10:15 pm
I’m excited to announce that today we’re open-sourcing Mobitest! We always saw Mobitest as a community tool. Following the acquisition, we raised the idea of open-sourcing it to the relevant people i...
Your Laptop Screen Just Got Smaller 17 Mar 2012 | 03:41 am
The new iPad shipped today, and a lot of reviews and comments are popping up. In the performance and mobile design world, those conversations revolve primarily around images in this new Retina iPad er...
SPDY for Mobile – Good News? 23 Feb 2012 | 05:18 am
A few weeks ago Google released a beta version of Chrome for Android, which is substantially different than the built-in Android browser. It offers some cool new features, which are outlined quite wel...
Blazing Akamai 9 Feb 2012 | 03:45 am
As you may have heard, Akamai acquired Blaze today. This is obviously big news for Blaze, and we’re thoroughly excited about it. Beyond that, we see this as a big moment for the field of Front-End Op...
Google Analytics Site Speed vs. Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance Explained 3 Feb 2012 | 10:13 am
Google is probably the biggest evangelist of speeding up the web, and spends millions each year on making the web faster. More specifically, Google offers users insight into their page load times, usi...
The Different Levels of Async JavaScript Processing 11 Jan 2012 | 07:45 am
Async JavaScript Execution is a hot topic. Naïve use of JavaScript causes various problems ranging from blocking other resources to creating availability dependencies on 3rd parties. Therefore, advanc...
How Would You Enhance HTML Tags For Performance? 22 Dec 2011 | 07:15 am
A little while ago Jason Grigsby wrote a great post outlining his “wish list” for how the <img> tag should change to simplify mobile design (and specifically Responsive Images). The post created a lot...
Mobile Web Performance Unraveled (GoogleTechTalk VIDEO) 17 Dec 2011 | 08:49 am
In the last few months I’ve been giving several presentations about Mobile Web Performance in various venues such as Walmart, Time and others. I also had the honor of giving this presentation as a Goo...
IE’s Premature Execution Problem 9 Dec 2011 | 06:21 am
Recently we came across a problem so bizarre I was amazed I never saw it before: IE executes dynamically created scripts before they’re added to the DOM! This problem took a while to figure out, and ...
Why Inlining Everything is NOT the Answer 7 Dec 2011 | 08:41 am
Last saturday I had the honor of writing a guest post in the great Performance Calendar, a part of Planet Performance (@perfplanet), and run by Stoyan Stefanov and Sergey Chernyshev. The post deals w...
