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Slow websites worse than traffic jams
While the Dutch are waiting some 400,000 hours in traffic jams every day, no less than 700,000 hours are wasted waiting for slow websites. About 5 million motorists in the Netherlands are delayed for an average of 5 minutes on a daily basis.
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Measuring the mobile web….eh.. How?
Measuring the loading time on the mobile web ain’t easy. At Google they have taken up the task to work on robust tools and best practices.
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Launch of Google Page Speed Service
An online service that automatically speeds up web pages? That sounds amazing! Google adds another feature to their Page Speed offerings.
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Mobile performance expectations
What users want from Mobile? See this Infographic published by Gomez based on a survey under 4000 global mobile users on performance expectations and behavior.
Business
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Hall of Shame in New Zealand
“Home page hall of Shame 2011″ Research from the 160 most visited websites from New Zealand. On a 20 Mbit/s download connection the average page took 5.98 seconds to load! (while avg connection in NZ is 3 Mb/s).
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New Relic Infographic — 6 seconds average load time
New Relic comes up with more and more Infographics. This one made quite some impact as it was picked up by several other publishers.
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Apple.com homepage twice as fast as Amazon & BestBuy. But.
CatchPoint, a US based web performance company, published a straightforward explanation on running a web peformance benchmark. They actually explain their benchmark.
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Site Speed in Google Analytics
Great news! To further evangelize speed, Google has released their new feature: Site Speed measurements as part of their new Google Analytics offerings.
Why important
Organization
Tech
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Measuring the mobile web….eh.. How?
Measuring the loading time on the mobile web ain’t easy. At Google they have taken up the task to work on robust tools and best practices.
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Launch of Google Page Speed Service
An online service that automatically speeds up web pages? That sounds amazing! Google adds another feature to their Page Speed offerings.
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Join the monthly WPO Chat
Today the third WPO chat took place which some very interesting topics. WPO chat is an initiative for Web Performance Optimization Professionals. The intention is to use Twitter with hashtag #wpochat.
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Google gives SSL a speedboost with SSL FalseStart
Google is sparking new speed initiatives faster than you can update your browser. This week they released a new technology, somewhat clumsily called “SSL FalseStart”.
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Mobile
