Page Weight Matters | Chris Zacharias
An excellent tale of performance optimisation …complete with a coda on looking behind the numbers when it comes to analytics data.
Tags: bandwidth
Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck - igvita.com
This is just wonderful! It combines almost all of my recent obsessions into one unified post: website performance (particularly on mobile) and the locations of undersea cables. The interactive map is the icing on the cake.
bandwidth (tecznotes)
Mike compares the bandwidth usage of the sites he most frequently visits. The results are grim.
The worst sins of the Flash years are coming back with a vengeance, in the form of CSS Frameworks and the magic dollar sign. There has seriously got to be a better way to do this.
this, is boomerang
This code could be useful in determining a user’s bandwidth.
The Mobile context
Yes! Yes! Yes! Mark nails it: just because someone visits a site with a certain kind of device doesn’t mean you can make assumptions about their intentions.
- Mobile != low download speed
- Context != intent
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Is mobile web development compatible with the One Web?
An excellent write-up by Bruce of a talk he gave at the Betavine birthday party. Down with .mobi! One Web FTW!
Blaby Conservative Future: Subscription Rate
This blogging Tory MP is stealing someone's bandwidth for the photo in this post. Said photo has been subtly altered. Hilarity ensues in the comments.
Newsvine - Hacking John McCain
John McCain stole Mike Davidson's bandwidth. This sounds like a job for .htaccessman.