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Issue #95 features Website Optimization Secrets Book announcement, Average Web Page Trends, and The Slashdot Effect, May 1, 2008

Issue #94 features Survey: 12% 'borrow' free Wi-Fi and Survey: Europe to Pass US in Wi-Fi Use, April 22, 2008.

Issue #93 features Inline Images with Data URLs, The Cost of Banner Advertising on Web Performance, US Broadband Penetration to Break 90% by mid-Summer Among Active Internet Users, Feb. 28, 2008.

Issue #92 features AOL Pagetest Web Performance Tool Released as Open Source, and iTunes Player Hits a High Note, Passes RealPlayer, Jan. 22, 2008.

Issue #91 features Optimize Parallel Downloads and a review of The Whole Shooting Match Digital Film Restoration, Jan. 4, 2008.

Issue #90 features Broadband Achieves Majority Fastest, SEM Trends: The Shift to SEO, Delta Encoding to Compress RSS Newsfeeds, and How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web, Dec. 18, 2007.

Issue #89 features a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, a Web Analytics Book, and Japanese Broadband World's Fastest, Cheapest

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What's happening in the web performance industry? What sites are fast? What sites are slow? Learn the latest news and views and some low-speed reviews in our free weekly magazine, Optimization Week. Along with slow-loading sites we'll feature the speed tweak of the week, where you'll learn the latest standards-based technique you can use right now to speed up your site. In addition, you'll keep up with the latest news from WSO, LLC including the latest on our free Web Page Analyzer.

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Optimization Week Issue #95, May 1, 2008

Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine, & Conversion Rate Secrets

Announcing our new book, Website Optimization Secrets, the definitive guide to optimizing web sites. With this book you'll learn best practice search engine marketing, conversion rate optimization, and web performance tuning techniques to fully optimize your website.

Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003

Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, dial-up users have been left behind.

The Slashdot Effect for Average Web Page Story

We were fortunate enough to be Slashdotted this week for our Average Web Page story. What is it like to be Slashdotted one reader wrote?

Optimization Week Issue #94, April 22, 2008

Survey: 12% 'borrow' free Wi-Fi

Some 12 percent of consumers 'borrow' free wireless connections, according to a new survey.

Survey: Europe to Pass US in Wi-Fi Use

Europe will soon pass the US in wireless usage at current growth rates, according to a recent survey.

Optimization Week Issue #93, Feb. 28, 2008

Inline Images with Data URLs

Learn how to embed images into your web pages with data URLs.

The Cost of Banner Advertising on Web Performance

The cost of banner ads for the average website is about one-sixth more objects and one-third more latency.

US Broadband Penetration to Break 90% by Mid-2008 Among Active Internet Users

Broadband penetration among active Internet users should break 90% by mid-2008 in the U.S, according to projections by Website Optimization.

WebPagetest.org

AOL's Pagetest, a newly open source web performance testing tool that we mentioned last issue, has now been webified.

Optimization Week Issue #92, Jan. 22, 2008

AOL Pagetest Web Performance Tool Released as Open Source

AOL has released an open source web performance tool called Pagetest. Pagetest is an Internet Explorer plug-in that measures and analyzes the performance of web pages. It features waterfall timing graphs, optimization checklists, and more details than competing software.

iTunes Player Hits a High Note, Passes RealPlayer

Apple's iTunes player passed RealPlayer in 2007 to become the second most popular streaming media player on the Internet. Growing at an annual rate of 26.8% iTunes hit a high note while the rest of the band was flat.

Optimization Week Issue #91, Jan. 4, 2008

Optimize Parallel Downloads to Minimize Object Overhead

With the average web page growing past 50 external objects, object overhead now dominates most web page delays. Increasing parallel downloads by using multiple hostnames can realize up to a 40% improvement in web page latency. Dec. 26, 2007.

The Whole Shooting Match Digital Film Restoration

We review the screening of The Whole Shooting Match, a lost classic film that was digitally restored. Time is running out for our classic films and producer Mark Rance says digital restoration is the answer.

Optimization Week Issue #90, Dec. 18, 2007

Broadband Achieves Majority Fastest

Faster than any other consumer technology, broadband achieved more than 50% adoption according to a survey by Pew Internet.

SEM Trends: The Shift to SEO

This presentation explores trends in search engine marketing and how budgets are shifting from traditional media to new media including the Internet.

Use Delta Encoding to Compress RSS newsfeeds

Learn how to use delta encoding to compress your RSS XML newsfeeds. Nov. 30, 2007.

How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web

At least four airlines have announced plans to offer broadband access in their planes. Dec. 7, 2007

Optimization Week Issue #89, Nov. 21, 2007

Website-Performance.org

The companion site to the upcoming book "High Performance Web Site Techniques," includes a new CSS Sprite Generator tool.

Actionable Web Analytics

Jason Burby and Shane Atchison of ZAAZ fame have written a new book on web analytics. The book's focus is on using analytics that can make a difference to your ROI.

Japanese Broadband World's Fastest, Cheapest

Japan leads the world with the fastest and lowest unit cost for broadband, according to recent data from the OECD.

Optimization Week Issue #88, Nov. 6, 2007

Suture CSS or JavaScript Files to Reduce HTTP Requests

Learn how to "suture" CSS or JavaScript files together before delivery from the server to save HTTP requests. You'll have your organization and eat it too with this server-side approach to merging files.

Western Europe Leads North America in Broadband Growth

Western European countries are adding broadband subscribers at a faster pace than the US and Canada, according to a recent report by Point Topic.

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