Hear hear – I second a motion for a need for speed…
I have been following the ReadWriteWeb’s coverage of the Web 2.0 summit currently being held in San Francisco.
One the posts that has caught my eye was the synopsis of Marissa Mayer’s Need for Speed.
As we enter a brave new world of web 2.0 applications and web services, speed and reliability of the internet is going to be even more important. In my previous post, I talked about Thinkature – the online collaboration site. This is a cool site which uses intelligent web / javascript design to create a fast user experience. I’m pretty sure I would have had a completely different impression if the was ajax UI was sluggish.
If you’re a web designer, you need to be thinking about the speed of your pages. Here are a few things that can help make a difference.:
What other suggestions do people have to speed up web pages?
It amazing what a little speed can do! (heh!) Take a look at smaps. We’re are really proud of the speed of Smaps. We (ProjectX and Trade Me) spent a lot of time optimising the database and javascript so that the address suggest was blazingly fast. (And having built in httpd compression definitely!)