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Hey there. It’s been a year since we first opened our mobile browser concurrency test for people to use, so I thought I’d take a quick moment to thank everyone who has taken the test.  All 6,461 of you. … More

To improve your WordPress performance we have previously advocated using the WP Super Cache plugin to enable pages served from a static cache.  This works quite well unless you are doing some form of content adaptation that is specific… More

In a previous post I presented the performance numbers for mobile device detection using WURFL and Device Atlas. Our numbers were generated on a data set consisting of 1,572 unique user agents we collected as part of our… More

This has probably been done to death elsewhere, but since I’ve been playing around with WURFL and Device Atlas for mobile device detection, I thought I’d publish some comparative performance numbers. As part of our mobile browser… More

Hi there! Just a quick note for people following our ongoing WordPress performance discussion. Leon Chevalier has released a new version of his PHP Speedy WordPress plugin. This update fixes the CSS compression bug we mentioned in our previous… More

With the release of WordPress 2.7 we’ve begun upgrading our customer sites to use this new version.  As part of that effort, we needed to ensure that our hard won performance improvements were not adversely impacted.  For the… More

A simple change to a MySQL table nets a 193 thousand percent performance improvement with only 30 seconds of effort. More

In a recent post, I presented a few easy steps that anyone can take to speedup their WordPress blog. My aim in that post was to introduce a basic methodology for measuring performance (YSlow), along with a fairly… More

We recently finished optimizing several WordPress blogs for improved performance and I thought “wouldn’t it be great to share our experiences with everyone?” After all, when I look around at all the blogs I know and use, I see… More

Jason is speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City on Thursday about mobile technology and performance. More