Minimizing Round Trip Times – RTT

Dec 082009
 

It’s time for another post to help your site load faster. My last post, Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website, finished off with caching. The next step to take for speeding up your website is to minimize round trip times, RTT.

RTT refers to all the requests required when a user accesses your website. This is not a size of file issue, but a number of requests issue. For example, my home page currently has 24 resources that need to be requested and transferred. The less the site has, the faster the transfer. Continue reading »

Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website

Dec 082009
 

Sticking to this weeks theme of speeding up your website, I thought I would address the most likely source of all our visitors, Google. Google may not be your primary source of visitors, but I’m sure you are getting at least a fair percentage of your traffic from them.

To make sure they are happy with your site, a good start would be to make sure you have taken their recommended steps to ensure your site is optimized for fast loading. Continue reading »

Slow Websites are a Dying Breed

Dec 072009
 

Slow loading website are most certainly a dying breed. If your website takes more than ten seconds to load, you might as well have a giant website under construction image up as well. Doing my analyses, I found the average home page load is usually between 2.5 and 7.5 seconds. If you want anybody looking at your website, it’s time to speed that load time up. This week I will be posting several tips on how to do just that, starting with some basics today. Continue reading »

The Best Web Browsers According to Rob

Sep 282009
 

I thought I would address browsers today, not as a web browser expert, but as a webmaster who is online all of the time. Note here, I have been building sites since 1996, so I think it’s safe to say I’m not a complete novice at deciding. At least for myself.

My Current Favorite, Mozilla Firefox

Over the years I have pretty much used them all, and on three major operating systems, Linux, Microsoft, and Apple. The reason I say Mozilla’s Firefox is the best is not really because of it’s current 3.5 version. It’s what they did right away that got my attention. From day one it’s been open source, and open source often equals add-ons.

Well in the case of Firefox, add-ons appeared to be a given. You can almost do anything with some tools built for Firefox. Firefox has become a plugin machine more than a browser, and I love many of the tools developers have created for it. Continue reading »

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