I spent a bit of time over the Xmas break using the iPhone for reading webpages. I’m hooked on using Google FastFlip as a way to flick through the top blogs and news sites like Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and BBC News. Unfortunately, I discovered how really sucky browsing webpages from a mobile device is. I’m [...]

Patrick Meenan of AOL has released aggregated data results of a years data of web page testing from webpagetest.org.
Here a quick summary of the results:

Average Load Time: 10.1 seconds
Average Time to First Byte: 1.1 seconds
Average Time to Start Render: 3.8 seconds
Average Page Size: 510 KB
Average Number of Requests: 50
Average Number of Redirects: 1

Comparing that to [...]

I decided to have a look at “The NZ homepage hall of shame” , 1 year on. ( Part of the speeding up NZ Internet series, I’ve just finished retesting the web performance of top 75 NZ homepages and added another 25 websites to cover the departure of a few sites) .
This time around, I’ve [...]

Steve Sounders has put up the test for his stanford class on website optimisation.
There are some really challenging questions in there.

Why were ETags introduced in HTTP/1.1?
What are four techniques for reducing cookie weight?
List five techniques for making selector matching faster.
Why do ETags (with the default Apache and IIS syntax) degrade performance with regard
to proxy caching?

Kudos [...]

The RPO team have released the AOL Webpagetest for New Zealand. Finally, we have a local content test frame work for testing the speed of a page.
Webpage Test is Awesome as it creates pageload waterfalls and average load times over a number of test iterations.

No there is no excuse for slow pages. Get to work [...]