The rise of smartphones and other mobile handheld devices has increased the importance of optimizing websites for smartphones and other mobile devices. There are three core aspects that need to be taken into consideration. The size of the display which is often a lot smaller than standard desktop display resolutions, the technologies supported by those [...]

Categories: Online Services, Web Development

Website Speed has been integrated into Google’s search engine algorithm some time ago. Many webmasters have started to optimize their server and page loading times after the announcement. While it has been proven that faster page loading times have a positive effect on user interaction and sales, it is not clear how faster sites benefit [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Google just announced the availability of the webmaster related service Page Speed Service. You may remember that the company started to introduce its Page Speed service about two years ago which provided suggestions to webmasters and developers on how to improve the page loading times of their websites and web services. The Page Speed Service [...]

Categories: Web Development

As a webmaster, you have to make sure that your websites are loading as fast as possible, without sacrificing functionality. While it may be cool to have ten 500 Kilobyte images on your homepage, it may in turn lead to visitors leaving the site before it is completely loaded in their browsers. Lower page loading [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Web Development

Site speed has been added as a ranking factor by Google some time ago. Webmasters since then have started optimizing their websites’ page loading times. Some of the optimizations done included reducing the number of elements loaded when people visit the site, optimizing media elements, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using web caching technologies to [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Web Development

Google and Microsoft have recently published several posts that indicate that they are going to lay more emphasize on a website’s performance with the likely possibility that performance will play a greater role in determining a website’s search engine rankings. But improving site performance has additional immediate benefits to the webmaster and site owner that [...]

Categories: Google

Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox