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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size. Okay, yeah.

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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. But if a website or app is consistently laggy (read: many popular media sites), eventually, you just sort of drift away. According to the same survey, website slowdowns occurred 10X more frequently than outages.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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How To Choose a Website Builder For Your Web Development Company?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

You’ll require the knowledge of creating a new website to avoid the hassle of learning. You can make a great website without coding or advanced web design skills. A website builder is an alternative. Anyone can use a good website builder, even if they don’t know web design. The news is positive.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. That means describing what a website is.