Performance, Page 7

Bruce Lawson has great post today called What Users Want from Mobile, and what we can re-learn from them. I highly recommend reading it. Bruce quotes from a survey of mobile web users and…

Scott Jehl recently tweeted: I concur. A couple of months ago, I asked what you preferred as a solution for responsive images. At the time, I didn’t have a strong…

When it is AppleCoreMedia. Let me explain. I wrote recently about a quiz that we built that included HTML5 audio files. In addition to the volume problems already discussed, we encountered intermittent issues where…

Warning: Technical WordPress post ahead! Overview: Really Getting JavaScript Into the Footer Quoth the WordPress Version 2.8 feature list: – Improvements to the script loader: allows plugins to queue scripts for the front end…

There’s an interesting article on mobiforge.com that talks about the pitfalls of using CSS sprites for mobile web content. While there are several reasons why sprites may not be a good idea, two stand…

As many of you know, we’re fairly enamored with the YSlow techniques for understanding and evaluating web performance for web applications.  We have successfully used the information to improve the user-perceived performance for “traditional” websites…

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…

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…

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…