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Web performance matters. Responsive sites can make the online experience effective, even enjoyable. A slow site can be unusable. This site is about online performance, how to achieve and maintain it, its impact on user experience, and ultimately on site effectiveness.
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101 Essential Checklists
Web site download speed and performance tuning
Continuing my series of posts on Web performance guidelines, today I'm reviewing one chapter of a new book -- Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists [Sitepoint] -- by Shirley Kaiser of SKDesigns, published by Sitepoint in July 2006.
Sitepoint's practical publications are well known among Web developers, and Kaiser deserves credit for devoting a full chapter to site performance alongside all the useful advice on other topics. As its title states, this book does not cover topics in great depth. Each checklist item is stated, then discussed briefly.
Chris Loosley
in Optimization and Tuning, Book Reviews
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Are Online Retailers Ready for Business?
Every year, more and more shoppers turn to the Web for their holiday shopping, with total sales in 2006 projected to be in the multi-billion dollar range. But will online retailers be up to the task? Our recent study suggests that many will not.
by Ben Rushlo
Chris Loosley
in Business Perspectives, Performance in the News
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Speed Up Your Site
Continuing my series on Web performance guidelines, today I am reviewing another book -- Speed Up Your Site, by Andrew B. King, published by New Riders in 2003.
When I was reviewing Web Usability Books, I promised to cover Speed Up Your Site, but never got around to doing so -- for reasons I will explain. A full table of contents listing all 19 chapters is available online; in summary, the book has six parts:
Chris Loosley
in Optimization and Tuning, Book Reviews
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Web Performance Tuning
Today I'm going to look at another list of Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips, following up on my promise to review Web site and application performance advice.
Today's list of tuning tips was created by Patrick Killelea, the author of Web Performance Tuning, first published by O'Reilly in 1998, then revised in 2002. When the second edition came out, Patrick also updated his 1998 top ten list, presumably to reflect changes in the rapidly maturing Internet and Web environment.
Chris Loosley
in Optimization and Tuning, Book Reviews
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The Web, Baseball, and the Price of Gas
This is only tangentially related to the usual subjects I cover in this blog, but it certainly relates to the way I approach research and blogging. I am always doing research online, and during summer evenings and weekends that activity is often accompanied by the day's radio broadcast of the Oakland A's baseball game -- the best baseball team here in the San Francisco Bay Area, by any objective standard.
Chris Loosley
in Life, The Universe, and Everything
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Reporting Web Application Responsiveness
In a previous post, I discussed some complications of measuring Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In particular, I concluded that to report useful measurements of the user experience of response times, …
Chris Loosley
in Measuring Performance, Reporting on Performance, Rich Internet Applications
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Ten Steps to a Faster Web Site
This post is the first in a new series on how to build Web pages, sites and applications that perform well -- by design. I will be combining my own observations with online research and recommendations on best practices contributed by my colleague Ben Rushlo. Ben makes his living measuring Web site performance and giving companies advice on how to improve the performance of their sites and applications.
Despite the crucial contribution of performance to online application effectiveness, good advice on the subject is surprisingly scarce on the Web, and even scarcer in books about Web design ...
Chris Loosley
in Optimization and Tuning
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