Note: Archived ContentThis is the archived version of the Zoompf blog. Since our acquisition by Rigor, all our new research and posts on web performance are being published on The Rigor Blog
At Zoompf, we are always focused on bringing you the best guidance on how to optimize your website for faster frontend performance. In the past, we promoted optimizations such as lossy image optimizations or better GZIP support long before they became common place. In Zoompf’s role as a web performance visionary discovering new methods to […]
Today Google released their HTML/CSS Style Guide. While it is full of great advice to help manage a growing code base among multiple developers, I thought it would be interested to review the web performance implications of each of its recommendations. Despite being a just style guide, nearly all of its rules had performance ramifications. […]
There has been some interesting discussion recently on the mailing list for Google’s Page Speed performance tool. Brian Brophy rediscovered a critical performance bug in Internet Explorer that Joseph Smarr had found nearly 3 years ago. Both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are affected by this bug . IE8 is not affected. To summarize, the […]
We were recently on-site with a client helping them fix some issues when we happened to see this directory containing some HTML files. Well that’s odd. Why do some of those HTML files have one icon and different HTML files have another icon? We examined the source code for one of the HTML files with […]
Not defining a character set or where you do define it can cause poor performance for your website’s visitors. In this post we will discuss character sets and how best to define them to avoid web performance problems. At their core, HTML documents are just a series of bytes. The character set (or charset) for […]
