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		<title>NZ Homepage Drag Race &#8211; Chrome vs IE8 &#8211; which is faster ?</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/08/nz-homepage-drag-race-chrome-vs-ie8-which-is-faster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Recently, Gomez released information that Google Chrome was the fastest browser from real world testing. That got me thinking, how does Chrome compare to IE8 for New Zealand webpages. For most websites, IE8 is the most popular browser, so it will be an interesting piece of research. I&#8217;ve created a mini-test of 40 New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background to the &#8220;Forgotten Art of Web Performance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/07/background-to-the-forgotten-art-of-web-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image courtesy of Wedo Photography I wanted to write a little bit of background to why I gave this talk at WDCNZ. I got hassled a little bit by the other presenters on why I gave this talk. That web performance was &#8220;Old Hat&#8221; and companies have known about this for 5 years. That&#8217;s correct, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In web performance &#8211; total number of request matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is new image from my latest research of homepage performance. This clearly shows the correlation between page load time and number of requests. The pageload time increases, so does the number of requests on the page. From my presentation at WDCNZ, I recommend less than 60 total requests for a page, if you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homepage hall of shame &#8211; July 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/07/homepage-hall-of-shame-july-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/07/homepage-hall-of-shame-july-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This is the latest installment of the &#8220;Home page hall of Shame&#8221; which is an independent audit of the state of Web Page Optimisation in New Zealand. This test takes the top 160 New Zealand based websites from Alexa rankings and compares a number of different metrics &#8211; Page Size, Download time, optimisation scores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO training on Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/07/seo-training-on-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m giving a half day  SEO training session on Wednesday for NZCS in Wellington. Pricing starts from $230 for NZCS members and $345 for the general public. This course is open to everyone. This course has been derived from the specialist consulting that I have provide my clients over the past few years and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance hardening a 512Mb VM with Varnish</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/06/performance-hardening-a-512mb-vm-with-varnish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2011/06/performance-hardening-a-512mb-vm-with-varnish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having performance issues on a 512Mb VM where I run 3 wordpress sites for projectx and lushai. The problem was that the memory footprint default apache configuration would explode when traffic arrived. Lots of traffic would cause the Apache prefork module to spawn more processes until the machine started swapping and then cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full results &#8211; Home page hall of shame Dec 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/full-results-home-page-hall-of-shame-dec-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/full-results-home-page-hall-of-shame-dec-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This is the latest installment of the &#8220;Home page hall of Shame&#8221; which is an independent audit of the state of Web Page Optimisation in New Zealand. This test takes the top 100 New Zealand based websites from Alexa rankings and compares a number of different metrics &#8211; Page Size, Download time, optimisation scores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary of Homepage Hall of Shame &#8211; Dec 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/summary-of-homepage-hall-of-shame-dec-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been inspired by Pat Meenan&#8217;s excellent posts of the State of optimization summary and the state of web performance optimization 2010 , so I thought I&#8217;d do another &#8220;Homepage hall of shame&#8220;. &#8211; which is a web performance review of the top 100 NZ based websites. (Top 100 sites is based on Alexa traffic). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home page Drag Race</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/home-page-drag-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/home-page-drag-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created a set of video&#8217;s highlighting the page load time differences of a selection of NZ top websites. Its a drag race, lets see who can claim bragging rights???? Notes: The videos show download times from the US using a &#8220;broadband&#8221; IE 7. The page load times in NZ are faster, but this gives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long, long time between drinks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/a-long-long-time-between-drinks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectx.co.nz/2010/12/a-long-long-time-between-drinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.projectx.co.nz/?p=1550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It been a long long while since I&#8217;ve written a blog post. This year has been a bit of a blur with lots of things happening &#8211; lots of consulting to companies, selling the services side of ProjectX, going on a holiday for two months and more consulting. This blog will change as the focus [...]]]></description>
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