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JSBenchmark – February 2010 Update

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

JSBenchmark.celtickane.com has recently benchmarked (and recorded) 50,000 browser tests. If you aren’t familiar with it, JSBenchmark is a javascript benchmarking utility that records the javascript speed of all visitors and aggregates various browser speeds. You can test out your own browser(s) at the Run Benchmark page, or check out all the popular browsers’ performance at the Results page.

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Five Painless Site Optimizations

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Why Optimize?

A few minutes of painless website optimization is well worth your time. With a properly designed site, a few simple optimization and compression techniques will result in reduced bandwidth requirements and faster load times. If you want to survive the digg effect, or just make your site more efficient, you owe it to yourself to try all five of the following techniques.

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