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Financial Times increases engagement with personalisation, speed

Less than one year after launching the new, fast-loading FT.com, ad inventory has increased more than 15%, and 44% of digital subscribers are using the site’s MyFT personalisation feature.

ServiceWorker: A Basic Guide to BackgroundSync

Picture the scene. You’re using your mobile device to browse a website and book some important concert tickets. You’ve have been eagerly awaiting this concert for months. You get right through to the checkout screen, enter your card details and hit submit. And then your flaky 3G connection drops. Screaming and pain ensues.

About Shrinking PNG Images with Quantization

A screenshot is usually displayed from a PNG image. If the screenshot is mainly for the web consumption, often it is not important to have every pixel portraying the color faithfully. This is an opportunity to reduce the bandwidth consumption by delivering a reasonably good, quantized version of the screenshot in a smaller PNG image.

loader.io

Loader.io is a FREE load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps & apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

About that ‘mobile’ in Accelerated Mobile Pages

There’s nothing inherently ‘mobile’ about AMP. AMP is designed to be mobile friendly, and with slow hardware and high latency connections, the boost you get with AMP on smartphones is going to be felt a lot stronger than on desktops. But AMP isn’t mobile only – it’s mobile first.

CSS: The Perfect Print Stylesheet

Even today, there are still many people that want to print out the entire internet. This can have many reasons. Maybe a team seeks to discuss an article’s content in a meeting. Or maybe somebody wants to read your article somewhere where they don’t have an internet connection. To satisfy these people, each website requires […]

With Accelerated Mobile Pages Coming This Month, Google Aims to Reinvent the Mobile Web

Search Giant Tries to Invigorate Mobile Web, Where It Wants Consumers to Stay

What To Expect From JavaScript In 2016 – Beyond the Browser

In the last several years, JavaScript, a scripting language designed for use in web browsers, has been used in an increasingly diverse set of software applications. With JavaScript now running as server-side code, driving iOS and Android apps, and even controlling robotics, it’s hard to find a software ecosystem that JavaScript hasn’t influenced. Part of what’s […]

Google Chrome is About to Get Faster Than Before!

If you are a Google Chrome user, there is good news for you. Your web browser is about to get faster and better than ever, all thanks to a new data compression algorithm that Google is planning to roll out soon.

How I Sped Up My Site 68.35% With One Line of Code

One of my obsessions as of late has been page speed. A more technical client early last year made me realize I’d phoned it in for the page speed recommendations that I’d been including in my SEO Site Audits. You know the ones, minifying code, removing inline styles and JavaScript, specifying image dimensions, leveraging compression, […]

voxel.css

voxel.css makes 3D rendering easy. CSS means no ray tracing for mouse events. CSS means a mesh can support all image types. CSS means GPU acceleration and CSS3 transitions

Google Pagespeed Insights: How I Fixed My Slow Website

The speed of a website is a very important thing to care about, especially since it’s a known fact that Google is incorporating website speed as a factor of how the site will rank. Google has developed a tool called PageSpeed Insights, which allows you to check the speed of your website based on several […]