The wrong choice of image file types “PNG, JPEG or GIF” is usually the main reason that many blogs and / or web pages take too long to load (damaging the user experience and increasing the bounce rate). Photographs are …
Types Of Image Files When To Use JPEG, GIF or PNG? Read More
Website speed is termed as the speed with which your site or its pages get opened. It can be described as “page load time” (the time it takes to fully display the content) or “time to first byte” (how long …
Website Speed Optimization Guide for Google PageSpeed Rules Read More
Agile software development (ASD) is a technique that integrates flexibility in the needs and implements practicality for delivering the ultimate product. Here we are presenting the top five PHP frameworks that are the best suitable frameworks for enterprise applications. In …
5 Best PHP Frameworks for Agile Software Development Read More
Web fonts are a key ingredient in today’s website designs; at my employer (AOL) it is a given redesigns will feature downloadable fonts. The days of maintaining a sprite full of graphic text headlines are behind us. We’ve moved on—but …
Web Font Performance: Weighing @font-face Options and Alternatives Read More
An issue that has stressed the relationship between web performance and accessibility is the little known fact that CSS image sprites, a technique used to reduce image HTTP requests, dissappear in Microsoft Windows’ high contrast mode. This is because they …
Foreground Sprites – High Contrast Mode Optimization Read More
Once upon a time, all we needed to worry about was reducing Bytes and Requests and playing around with load order to make things faster. Nowadays, we are increasingly impacting one more major component in performance – CPU utilization. Using …
As a long time user of Adobe Photoshop, I missed the boat on a very important discovery in image optimization – PNG-8 supports full alpha transparency! Alex Walker wrote a great article on PNG and included a nice example on …
