Photos are the main culprit as to why pages (appear to) render slow.
Use progressive JPEGs to improve the performance of your site, “because perceived speed is more important than actual speed”.
Use Progressive JPGs to Improve Your Website’s Percieved Speed was originally found on Access 2 Learn
Assistant Professor
Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.
Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.
He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.
Google has put together a “Basics of a mobile website for SMBs”. This is a four part series, listed below, for you to look at and see about creating mobile websites. Lesson 1 Learn the tools: PageSpeed Insights, Mobile-Friendly Test and Mobile-Usability Lesson 2 Bring it in: Viewports, zoom and plugins”>Bring it in: Viewports, zoom…
Periodically people will try to argue about should they have valid HTML for their websites. Some argue that you should always validate. But does it really matter? Imagine a web browser that could only view valid HTML websites. What would it view? We’ll I’ve read in times past that over 80% of all web pages…
It is fairly common knowledge that people hate to wait for websites to download and view. It is even easy to find studies which state that you only have between 4 and 7 seconds to get someone interested in your site, which means you’ve got to be fast. What isn’t known so much is how…
I’ll admit, one of the parts of web deign, that is the hardest for me, is writing a good headline. I have to work hard at it to get a good headline. However, I good headline can make your website. Good page titles can help by: Increasing page traffic, Improving SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and…
Web Analytics is the process of learning about how users use a web site. This is very important from a business point of view, as seeing how a site is used can lead to improvements in flow of users and thus conversions (lead generation and sales). Looking at reports from the analytics software is easy….
Want to get started with CSS transitions? Then you will want to read this introductory tutorial on how to start using the animations. It looks at things like: Easing Properties that can be animated and Timing Plus there are some examples to see it in action. Link to Article via pro blog design Getting Started…
