Speed Up Your Site with mod_pagespeed for Apache - US Broadband Speed Jumps to 16th Worldwide - Boost Conversions with Clickthrough Heatmaps - Optimization Week of November 16, 2010
Optimization Week Issue #117, November 16, 2010
This time we've got three new items for you. First up, Google has release mod_pagespeed, a server-side version of their popular Page Speed client-side software. Once installed on your server, mod_pagespeed automatically speeds up your site using a number of filters. mod_pagespeed doesn't recode your pages, but it does trim the fat and set better caching policies. Next up the US has improved its broadband speed rankings to 16th worldwide, according to a recent Akamai survey. Finally, webmasters are asking for more ways to increase conversions. To find out where people are clicking the most, you can create clickthrough heatmaps with a service from Crazy Egg.
- Automatically Speed Up Your Site with mod_pagespeed for Apache
- mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically speeds up web sites. Through a number of filters, mod_pagespeed trims the fat off your HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images, reduces HTTP requests, and improves caching. In this article we introduce mod_pagespeed and summarize the available filters.
- US Broadband Speed Jumps to 16th Worldwide
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The US has improved its broadband speed rankings from 22nd to 16th worldwide, according to an Akamai broadband survey. Delaware enjoys the fastest connections in the US, and California continues to dominate the top US cities for fast broadband. We also show the slowest countries and US states.
- Boost Conversions with Clickthrough Heatmaps - Crazy Egg
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Visualize your visitor behavior with click heatmaps from Crazy Egg. This software as a service uses a small snippet of JavaScript to do the magic behind the scenes. Note this is not eye tracking, which tracks where people look on your pages. This is click tracking, which shows where people actually click with heatmap images.
