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Guest posts on June 5th, 2009 by Pingdom
Here’s some interesting news for all you webmasters and web developers out there. Google has just introduced a tool they call Page Speed that tests a web page based on a set of rules and best practices for fast-loading websites. It then gives you advice on what you can improve to make your website faster. It works as an add-on to Firefox and needs the Firebug extension to work.
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Guest posts on October 15th, 2008 by Pingdom
Aptimize has released a product called Runtime Page Optimizer. The software runs on your webserver and applies performance optimizations to pages before they are delivered to the browser.
Aptimize uses many of the optimizations that Steve Souders describes in his book High Performance Web Sites and the best practices from YSlow.
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Main on August 8th, 2008 by Pingdom
Steve Souders, the creator of YSlow and the author of the book High Performance Web Sites, is one of the most respected experts on website performance in the world. We here at Pingdom are big fans of his work, and decided to probe his mind about the excellent YSlow Firefox add-on for evaluating website performance [...]
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Main on June 27th, 2008 by Pingdom
There has been several blogs that lists the best Firefox extensions that are out there. Since Pingdom are operating in the web performance and monitoring field we decided to make our own list of valuable Firefox extensions.
In this list we don’t cover the well known extensions such as Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug but rather [...]
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Main on May 29th, 2008 by Pingdom
We have used Yslow, Yahoo’s performance plugin to Firefox, to analyze the performance of the top 100 websites in the US according to Alexa. The results were both surprising and interesting.
Yslow will rank websites using 13 different criteria that are known to affect website performance, such as the number of HTTP request, how scripts and [...]
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Main on April 2nd, 2008 by Pingdom
There are a lot of bloggers out there aiming to make a living from their blogging (or at least supplement their main income a bit). In the blogging world, content is king, but there are other factors as well. One major factor is basic human impatience.
If your blog loads slowly, to a lot of people [...]
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