Say It Ain’t Slow

A blog about website performance (in Helvetica, where available)

Back on Subject: Rule Zero of the Exceptional Performance Ruleset

The first rule on Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site is “Make Fewer HTTP Requests”. The rules seem to come with the assumption that everyone in their right mind are developing on a decent server. That’s not always the case, and I think there should be more discussion on the subject of selecting an appropriate service provider.

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A New Home For The Font Game

The server change has finally taken place. The game is now hosted at iLT.

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Come On… A Danger Hiptop?

It seems that some of you are playing the game on a bit more obscure platform than I had prepared for. So, if someone from the Wii community could comment the gameplay, well, that’d be grand. I’ll test the Nokia N-series tonight, but since they use WebKit I don’t expect to see anything unusual going on.

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Did Anyone Say iPhone?

Here you go: http://iphone.sayitaintslow.com/

I’m would really appreciate some feedback, since I don’t have an iPhone or an iPod Touch to test this with. This version was done in less than two hours, so be gentle with your comments.

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“The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state.”