Posts tagged ‘performance’

I’m a published author!

by on June 27, 2012

One of my life goals is to write a book. I recently came one step closer to that goal with a contribution to the new Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 from O'Reilly. The project started out of Stoyan Stefanov's Performance Calendar which was a series ...
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O’Reilly interview about Torbit

by on July 18, 2011

I recently attended and spoke at the Velocity Conference. While I was there, Mac Slocum grabbed me and we spent a few minutes talking about mobile performance. Mac is the Online Managing Editor for O'Reilly and it was fun to get to share some of the ...
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Speaking at Velocity Conference

by on June 3, 2011

In a couple weeks I'll be speaking at O'Reilly's 2011 Velocity Conference. Velocity is an annual gathering of people who care a lot about web performance. The tagline this year is “Automated, Optimized, Ubiquitous”. Of course, “Automated” describes ...
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Guest post on TechCrunch: How fast is your site?

by on April 4, 2011

On Friday I had the privilege of writing my second guest post for TechCrunch. My article was titled How Fast Is Your Site? Measure It With Google’s Page Speed Online. I talked about the new Page Speed Online tool from Google and how you can use it ...
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Queue events that occur before JavaScript is loaded

by on June 24, 2009

One of the common recommendations for speeding up your website is to put your JavaScript at the bottom of your page instead of including it inside the head tag. The difference this simple placement can have is impressive, especially if you are dealing ...
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How to speed up your website

by on May 21, 2009

There are few things as frustrating as having to wait for a website to load.  Not only do slow websites make for a poor user experience, they can also have a big impact on your bottom line: Google discovered that adding 500ms to their load time ...
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