Published in 1989, Stephen Covey’s book – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – is regarded as one of the greatest books about personal growth and productivity ever produced. Covey’s universal and timeless advice can apply to a multitude of aspects of our lives, and as we wrote about last month fast websites are …
Did you realize that making your site faster is not just great for your sales, it’s also good for the world? Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases …
We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. Good news is that we can answer that …
These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. 1. Keep a …
All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Pingdom has a “Performance Grade.” WebPageTest has their five A-F grades. While these do have a purpose, most people use them incorrectly, in a way that can be dangerous …
It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. In fact, some were pretty upset that we practically insulted you if you weren’t doing it. But now it appears the Google Chrome team has jumped aboard and is planning to implement it natively in an upcoming …