Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do
Submitted 2 years and 497 days ago (more from smashingmagazine.com)The good news (and hard truth) about performance is that 80 to 90% of poor performance happens in the front end. Once the browser gets the HTML, the server is done and the back-end developer can do nothing more. The browser then starts doing things to our HTML, and we are at its mercy. This means that to achieve peak performance, we have to optimize our JavaScript, images, CSS and HTML.
Best IE6 PNG Alpha-Transparency Fixes
Submitted 2 years and 506 days ago (more from javascriptly.com)One of the most painful facts about IE6 is that it does not natively support PNG alpha-channel transparency. Well, if you care about IE6 here are some of the best hacks to fix the issue.
Charles - Web Debugging Proxy
Submitted 2 years and 511 days ago (more from charlesproxy.com)Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Also lets you simulate slower internet connections by throttling.
7 Ways to Use the Web Developer Toolbar for SEO
Submitted 2 years and 513 days ago (more from seomoz.org)Amongst the add-ons I add to any new install of Firefox is the Web Developer Toolbar. This add-on is chock-full of features that are useful for web developers, but it really does make diagnosing various SEO issues much easier. This list gives the top seven tasks that I find easier when the toolbar is installed.
dynaTrace Ajax - Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
Submitted 2 years and 518 days ago (more from ejohn.org)After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the most interesting results running against the JavaScript-heavy Gmail in IE 8.
ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 2: Visitor Attention and Web Pag
Submitted 2 years and 526 days ago (more from blog.clicktale.com)Have you ever wondered how much attention your visitors pay to your website content? We all have, of course. But until recently, most of the evidence has been based on personal observation or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation. To answer this question objectively, we have analyzed over 80,000 web page browsing sessions collected over a one month period.
ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach
Submitted 2 years and 526 days ago (more from blog.clicktale.com)It appears that visitors scroll in a relative way - about the same percentage of page views will reach the middle of a web page regardless of the actual page height in pixels. Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.
Unfolding the Fold
Submitted 2 years and 526 days ago (more from blog.clicktale.com)These statistics demonstrate that the vast majority of web designers are designing pages with scrolling, that the majority of users do scroll and that a significant portion of them scroll all the way to the page bottom.
Online JavaScript and CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor
Submitted 2 years and 527 days ago (more from refresh-sf.com)The YUI Compressor is JavaScript minifier designed to be 100% safe and yield a higher compression ratio than most other tools. According to Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team, 40% to 60% of Yahoo!'s users have an empty cache experience and about 20% of all page views are done with an empty cache. This fact outlines the importance of keeping web pages as lightweight as possible.
Easy front-end framework
Submitted 2 years and 527 days ago (more from easyframework.com)Easy is more than a CSS framework designed for building layouts. It includes built-in (jQuery powered) interactive functions that are so easy to use that you really don't have to know first thing about JavaScript. It also includes a library of preformatted and precoded CSS/HTML content blocks that you can simply paste into your master template.