Category Archives: technology

How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users

Posted on January 6, 2013 by sf03

1. Use Backwards Moving Ribbings 2. Increase the Number of Pulsations 3. Accelerate the Progress and Avoid Pauses at the End 4*. Progress Bar Time is Relative –VIA uxmovement

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How the Post is improving site performance (32.4% improvement)

Posted on December 24, 2012 by sf03

The Post improved their page speed by 32.4%.    

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3 white lies behind Instagram’s lightning speed

Posted on December 21, 2012 by sf03

Instagram Always Pretends To Work Loading Content Based On Importance, Not Order Anticipating The User’s Every Move VIA – fastcodedesign

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Web Performance Improvements can be Beautiful too – Crate and Barrel Example

Posted on December 18, 2012 by sf03

From a WPO (Web Performance Optimization) perspective the engineering team did a fantastic job at: Combining images with CSS sprites Reducing the number of third party tags, and loading the tags after document complete. Adding proper expiration headers to assets Relying … Continue reading →

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Google releases +1 button preview – loads 20% faster

Posted on December 7, 2012 by sf03

Reducing the size of the js/plusone.js loader and making the code smarter, page elements now load 20% faster. https://plus.google.com/109149042139780068087/posts/JrrMwYDXNqA

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Thinking Async for 3rd party JavaScript

Posted on December 2, 2012 by sf03

Third-party JavaScript should be loaded asynchronously, as it helps avoid slowdowns and can speed up page loads. http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/07/31/33-best-web-performance-links-of-q2-2012/

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How Bazaarvoice is helping with front end optimization?

Posted on December 1, 2012 by sf03

http://developer.bazaarvoice.com/third-party-front-end-performance-part-1

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How complex systems fail

Posted on November 30, 2012 by sf03

Dr. Richard Cook outlines the reasons why all complex systems are intrinsically hazardous, why disaster is always just around the corner, and how failure-free operations still require experience with failure.   http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf

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Why “even faster” matters in the web performance and optimization world.

Posted on November 30, 2012 by sf03

This video is 00:29:31 minutes long so if you want to jump to specific answers, the questions and responses are found here: Current state of the Performance and Operations market. Starting at 00:00:36 Terms, semantics and DevOps, are we splitting hairs? Starting at 00:04:42 … Continue reading →

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How fast are websites around the world?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by sf03

The answer, of course, depends on the nature of the site, the content, and the type of interactions your users perform on the site.   –VIA –

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