It’s a well-known fact that site speed is a critical ranking factor for organic search. The big question has been how exactly Google does this. This is probably one of the most-asked questions I receive, and the answers aren’t easy to find.
Full article: FAQs: The 12 most-asked questions about how Google factors page speed into its search rankings – Web Performance Today.
An interesting article on reducing bandwidth use, increase speed and serving you website visitors better
Images make up the majority of the Internet, yet we consistently fail to apply the most basic of optimizations. Even big sites like Twitter are completely screwing this up. Furthermore, there are huge unexplored areas when it comes to image optimization which would provide significant savings. We should stop worrying about esoteric performance optimizations when there is so much other low hanging fruit.
Full article: Overlooked Optimizations: Images / Stoyans phpied.com.
This is the blog of Markos Giannopoulos, devoted to web development, technology, the internets, etc. I've been working on, in and around the web for the last 16 years. You can find me on Google+ and Facebook.
