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2012 predictions: The average web page will hit 1 MB, Google and Siri will face off, and Chrome, Windows 7, and RUM will rise

Posted on December 21, 2011 By Josh Bixby

It wouldn’t be December without an avalanche of predictions for 2012. Here’s my contribution.

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OReilly Radar interview: You cant get away with a bad mobile experience anymore

Posted on December 14, 2011 By Josh Bixby

Last week, Mac Slocum invited me to chat with him about mobile web performance. He had some great questions about apps versus mobile sites, common optimization mistakes, and whether or not different device owners have different expectations when it comes to performance.

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Using Web Analytics for Modeling Application Usage in Performance Tests

Posted on December 12, 2011 By Surajs Performance Engineering Blog

In my last article, I wrote about the paradigm shift in web application architecture and why performance testers have to re-think their strategy around testing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for performance. Web application development processes and …

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Case study: How to use network quality as a proxy for measuring mobile performance

Posted on December 7, 2011 By Josh Bixby

How do you measure the impact of mobile performance changes when slowing down pages isn’t an option? This case study shows how to take user data you already have and use it as a proxy for measuring performance impact.

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Finally How the Strangeloop Site Optimizer works (video edition)

Posted on November 29, 2011 By Josh Bixby

Anyone who works here at Strangeloop can tell you how long I’ve been gunning for a video that explains how our Site Optimizer works. Finally, here it is.

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Web performance just became seriously mainstream

Posted on November 21, 2011 By Josh Bixby

We’ve been saying for months that this year is going to mark a new highwater point for site site speed. I think it’s safe to say that it doesn’t get much more mainstream than this two-minute segment on CNBC’s Power Lunch.

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The day StumbleUpon stumbled: Why we removed the SU button from our sites

Posted on November 18, 2011 By Josh Bixby

Is this day and age, third-party content providers need to make their scripts load asynchronously in order not to bog down page load. StumbleUpon didn’t, and as a result, we removed their script from our websites.

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8 things the web content optimization community can learn from Matt Cuttss cloaking video

Posted on November 4, 2011 By Josh Bixby

In a recent Google Webmaster video, Matt Cutts gave definitive answers as to what constitutes “cloaking”. From these answers, I came up with a set of guidelines for the web content optimization (WCO) community.

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How to take your sites performance SLA to the next level

Posted on October 13, 2011 By Josh Bixby

Domino’s knew how to create a great customer SLA: Your pizza in 30 minutes or it’s free. How can the average site owner create a website SLA as compelling as Domino’s? Some thoughts.

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A Paradigm Shift in Web Application Architecture and Why Performance Testers Should Care

Posted on October 6, 2011 By Surajs Performance Engineering Blog

Modern browsers are turning into miniature operating systems. They can multi-task browsing processes, allocate and manage memory, collect garbage and much more. They are capable of running complex web applications on their own with minimal server i…

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