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Web performance: forget about the 100 milliseconds!

November 26, 2018E-business, Events, Tech tips

5 best practice tips for a successful Black Friday

November 19, 2018Tech tips

There was a 48% increase in transactions recorded in 2017, in comparison to 2016*. According to Google, “Black Friday” queries were up 125% in 2017, and 46% of people who made purchases on Black Friday 2017 say they took advantage of promotions to do their Christmas shopping early. Black Friday has therefore officially become the most important day for online retailers. The retail high season has begun! So, nothing must be left to chance.

Performance is now users’ no. 1 priority (even more so as they browse from their mobile). What’s the use in optimizing content that has trouble loading?
To put the odds on your side and improve your conversion rate (desktop and mobile), our technical team shares its 5 best practice tips for web performance.

How to organise your teams for maximum web performance

February 20, 2018Tech tips

Smart image optimisations to boost your web site

January 3, 2018Features / Evolutions, Tech tips

It is often difficult to get the right trade-off between image quality and loading speed.
The ideal solution would be for each image to be adapted on a user-by-user basis: be that clipping it perfectly to the user's device screen, stripping metadata of any unnecessary information or, of course, ensuring that it is displayed with optimum image quality. But achieving this soon becomes something of a black art.

Given this challenge, our technical team has pored over the plethora of best practices and advanced libraries out there to ensure that Fasterize implements the very best in image compression algorithms.
In this article, we present an overview of the various methods used.

4 crucial speed boosts for your HTTPS-enabled web site

August 8, 2017Tech tips

TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypts traffic to and from a web site, thereby preventing other parties from eavesdropping on your data. However, adding this safeguard to your web site introduces greater complexity and affects how the site interacts with your visitors. TLS can therefore lead to slow page loading times and have a negative impact on user experience. In this article, we introduce the various optimisations implemented by Fasterize at the TLS security layer to ensure your web site remains slick while maximising security.

Web performance: Optimising font loading

August 1, 2017Tech tips

CDN: 11 things you should know

July 25, 2017Tech tips

Waterfall charts: technical read and practical recommendations

July 10, 2017Tech tips

Waterfall charts provide a timeline representation of how elements of your web page are loaded into the browser.

This type of graph provides a wealth of information, including details such as the size of each of your resources, the number of requests, the loading behaviour, loading times and much much more!

So grab your ~~wetsuit~~ webpagetest report, as we dive in and show you how to interpret your waterfall chart and uncover the clues it has to offer for improving the performance of your web site.

Fasterize now supports Let’s encrypt

March 28, 2017Tech tips

There has been much talk about HTTPS lately. It is not just an advantage, it has become a must-have (for privacy and security of course, but for SEO as well).
HTTPS used to be expensive and hard to implement, Let’s encrypt has changed the deal.
It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) that provides SSL certificates, with a 3 months validity (renewable). Let's Encrypt offers a way to support a more secure and privacy-respecting Web, which is the reason why it was dear to us to support them and make it easier for our clients to use Let's Encrypt.

Why should you need to make your web site go faster?

April 26, 2016Tech tips

Perhaps you are thinking that your web site doesn’t need speeding up? But have you ever actually measured the speed of your web site? And have you actually run a speed check on it recently to make sure it never goes slow?

Simply looking at how fast your site feels is not enough when it comes to assessing the speed of your web site. Actual loading times can depend on a number of factors: which page is being viewed, which browser is being used, whether there is any caching, the type of connection (ADSL, 3G, Edge, etc.), the type of device is being used, etc.