An 11-Step Program to Bulletproof Your Site Against Third-Party Failure

Everyone has bad days, and third-party content providers are no exception. If you host third-party scripts — such as ads, social widgets, analytics, and trackers — on your sites, then script failure is inevitable. Sometimes this failure is fleeting and passes almost without notice. Other times, a single line of JavaScript can cause your entire site to crash spectacularly. While you can’t control your third-party content, you can control its impact on your website’s performance. Here are eleven steps to protect your site.

Case Study: How a 2-Second Improvement in Page Load Time More Than Doubled Conversions

Roughly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout, and new findings suggest that slow load times are the number-one culprit. A recent survey* of more than 2,500 online consumers in the US and UK found that two thirds (67%) of UK shoppers and more than half (51%) of those in the US said that site slowness is the top reason they’d abandon a purchase. These are pretty compelling numbers, but what do they mean in real terms for a typical site owner?

Latency: 4 Ways You Can Fight Back and Accelerate Your Applications

Many people have a rough idea that latency has something to do with the delay in moving content from the host server to the user, but when pressed, they struggle with explaining the real-world implications of latency on application performance. In this post, I’m going to explain what latency is, its impact on page load, and how we can fight back.

Is Social Media the New Application Delivery Tipping Point?

Let’s start by answering a simple question: which social media services do you use?

• YouTube
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• All of the above

“Web Stress”: Understanding Our Need for Speed [INFOGRAPHIC]

Last week, we released a report with, among other findings, this major discovery: the median top retail website takes 7.25 seconds to load. This represents a 22% slowdown from the median load time of 5.94 seconds recorded just one year earlier.

FREE REPORT: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance [Spring 2013]

Ecommerce web pages are 22% slower than they were in 2012, top retailers are underperforming the rest of the pack, and browser development is not keeping pace with the increasing size and complexity of modern web pages.