Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze the TechCrunch Disrupt.

TechCrunch Disrupt is a popular tech conference put on by TechCrunch which showcases startups and investors. Sadly the website is one of the slowest websites we have ever analyzed. This is really odd, given that TechCrunch’s main tech news website is a really fast site. In this video explore the performance problems and how they can be fixed.

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Zoompf is giving away a free ticket to the Web Performance Summit 2011. This is one day conference focused on web performance which is broadcast online around the world. It is a excellent event with lots of direct access to speakers, rich discussion with other attendees, and it covers a wide range of topics. There is an amazing lineup of speakers including: Mathias Bynens, Kyle Simpson, Joshua Bixby, and Aaron Peters. I will be giving a talk on lossy image optimization.

Zoompf has a free ticket and will be giving it away tonight at 9pm EDT. Want a change to get it? Here is what you need to do to be in the drawing:

1. Follow @zoompf on Twitter.
2. Retreet this tweet (also shown below)

That’s it! Simply follow @zoompf on Twitter, retweet our message, and you’re name will be in our drawing. We announce the winner tonight! Good luck and I hope to you can attend the Web Performance Summit 2011.

Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze the Federal Communication Commission.

The FCC just launched a new website as part of a $1.35 million redesign of their online presence. The site looks beautiful and leverages a number of open source technologies likes Durpal. In this video we see some configuration issues and developer mistakes lead to a large number of fontend performance problems.

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Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze UK ticketing vendor Seatwave.com.

As a online retailer for concert and event tickets, Seatwave faces some unique and interesting performance challenges. Specifically they must deal with extremely large spikes in traffic for extremely short periods of time as people mob the site trying to buy tickets when an event goes on sale and before it sells out. This video shows that while Seatwave has implemented some front-end performance optimizations there are still more things that can be done to improve their website’s performance.

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Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze Southgate Coins.

Southgate Coins is different the sites we have features on How Fast Is…? in the past. It is a small family business which sells rare coins in Reno Nevada. Even though Southgate Coins has less than a dozen in employees they care about web performance and one member of their staff has repeatedly used Zoompf’s free scanning service to help improve their website’s performance.

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Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze Twitter.

Twitter is a fairly dynamic site which has to worry about optimizing not only their content but user generated content as well. You will see that while Twitter does implement some performance optimizations there are several basic performance optimizations which spit through the cracks

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Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze Virgin America.

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