Netflix has joined the ranks of marquee heavyhitter names that include Facebook and Wikipedia which, in a bid to save massive amounts of bandwidth and money and to improve
When our server generates a webpage to send to your browser, among other tricks, using a piece of software called gzip, it compresses the text associated with each
If your website takes more than a second to load, your bounce rate, engagement and overall traffic suffers. By not doing everything you can to break the 1000ms-to-glass
If you thought part of the big WebP adoption holdup by Mozilla had anything to do with implementing its support involving a significant undertaking to code it in,
Bryan Alger of Facebook went on what’s becoming a somewhat famous Mozilla bug tracker thread to ask them to do the right thing: I am the Facebook engineer
Nginx, the second most popular web server, venerated for its speed and exceptional performance particularly with static content, reverse proxies and VPS setups among other purposes (a server
Citing increasing demand from large websites (perhaps Facebook?) Mozilla’s Firefox developers decided to reconsider adopting the superior but not so ubiquitously-supported image format WebP. Hallelujah, I thought, not
It was revealed in 2009 that with just five requirements, one of which is a cold beer, another being a freely-available piece of code called SSLstrip, you (or
Microsoft and Google have revealed that the longer your site takes to load, particularly beyond one second, the significantly more likely your overall traffic including engagement and retention
