Posts Tagged ‘Web compression

Budgets are shrinking. Resources are tight or shrinking. In a recent post, I discussed how ideas that I had been a proponent of for 2-3 years suddenly became extremely valuable to companies during the downturn of 2001-2003.
This downturn is a different beast. This means that you will need more than basic technical smarts to get [...]

Steven Hodson of WinExtra posted a screenshot of his personal Wordpress stats for the last three years last night. I then posted my stats for a similar period of time, and Steven shot back with some question about traffic, and the ebbs and flows of readers.
Being the stats nut that I am, I went and [...]

Well, the irony of this is painful.
I went with 1&1 as the hosting location for my personal domains, including WebPerformance.org.
One of the things that I preach there is the use of compression.
Guess what? 1&1 doesn’t use Web compression on their servers.
Ugh.

As a sidelight to my Web performance job, I spent a lot of time investigating Web compression techniques, tools and devices a while back (I have a library of items I have collected
My studies were purely technical, i.e. what was the bandwidth saving in implementing this technology v. remaining uncompressed. Now I want to work [...]

Since I yanked the content from the 9 domains I have decided to sell, I have seen a massive drop in the amount f traffic to my Web servers. This is likely a good thing, considering where these beasts are hosted.
However, I do know that a lot of people have come to rely on the [...]


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