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The most popular web performance posts of 2013 (so far) 19 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
I’m off for a couple of weeks of R&R. I’ll be back after Labour Day and fully charged up for what looks to be an action-packed fall and some very exciting news on the research and development front. ...
A video most of us can relate to 13 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
I don’t usually pimp product on this blog, but this video is too good not to share. The laugh-out-loud moment happens at 1:10. Related posts: Discuss: If you’re in the web performance business, you’...
Are you making any of these 8 common (and wrong) assumptions about mobile performance? 6 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
I’m very excited to share that my first article for ACM Queue recently went live. It covers a number of best practices you should be considering when it comes to optimizing your pages for mobile devic...
State of the Union: Page Speed & Web Performance [INFOGRAPHIC] 30 Jul 2013 | 10:41 pm
Last week, we released our quarterly State of the Union for ecommerce web performance. This week, I want to share a poster version of the infographics we created to accompany the report. (If you want ...
New findings: Typical leading ecommerce site takes 4.9 seconds to serve usable content 23 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
Today at Radware, we’ve just released our State of the Union: Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance [Summer 2013]. If you’re not familiar with this report, it’s a quarterly benchmark of the page comp...
Too fast? Believe it or not, there is such a thing. 9 Jul 2013 | 04:28 am
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 point...
Notes from Velocity 2013: What people are saying about user experience, RUM, and mobile performance 27 Jun 2013 | 09:31 am
I haven’t been to a Velocity conference since 2011, so it was great to get out of my little ivory tower (just kidding: my tower is made out of regular old cinderblock) and get down to Santa Clara last...
11 questions (and answers) about content delivery networks and web performance 12 Jun 2013 | 10:15 pm
I frequently get asked about how content delivery networks (CDNs) fit into the bigger performance picture. Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions all in one easy-to-scan post. :)
The average web page has almost doubled in size since 2010 6 Jun 2013 | 11:02 am
According to the HTTP Archive, the average top 1,000 web page is 1246 KB, compared to 828 KB in May 2012. This represents a 50% rate of growth in just one year.
Three reasons why we need to invest in web performance for seniors 29 May 2013 | 08:08 am
Despite the fact that the 65+ demographic is poised to generate a powerful new ecommerce boom, current websites still discriminate against seniors by posing serious usability problems, including slow ...
