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Required Reading: Yahoo Research on Mobile Cache Size
With more and more people embracing the idea of producing HTML5 mobile web apps, research like this is becoming vital. There are a lot of gotchas in this article, especially if you’ve been ignoring this space. You should read the whole article, but I just want to point out a pair of findings before I…
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Performance Tip: When Linking to JavaScript on the Google Ajax Library CDN, Use a Specific Version Number
I’ve seen this a few times over the past few months: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”></script> What that basically says to Google is “give me the latest 1.* branch version of jQuery and make sure it’s minified.”
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Browser Size, a Simple But Useful Tool From Google
Browser Size does just what the name implies. Enter a URL, hit “go” and you’ll see just what percentage of the internet will see what without scrolling. Scrolling isn’t quite the bugbear it once was, but for certain types of pages immediate impact is still very important (campaign landing pages are a good example,) so…
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Great New Google Webmaster Tools Feature – “Site Performance”
You use Webmaster Tools, right? If you rely on Google traffic in any way shape or form you really should be using it. It’s an invaluable service and it just got better with the addition of a new, performance specific feature. From the Google Webmaster Central blog:
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Google’s Sitelinks vs. Bing’s Deep Links + D-Card
For some searches on both Bing and Google, the top result is enhanced with additional data. For simplicities’ sake (and because I’m selfish) I’m going to focus on one search for my personal site to compare the two. Google’s result for my site looks like this: