The splintering of the Internet is not a new phenomenon
There has been increasing discussion around the concept of the “splinternet”: that proprietary devices like the iPad or proprietary sites like Facebook are acting to splinter the old, connected Web into discrete, fragmented, and self-contained units. But the “golden age” was hardly golden, and today’s Web is, if anything, better than it used to be in terms of interconnectivity. Certainly it’s important to recognize fragmentation issues today, but let’s not pretend it’s a new problem.
14 Ways to Speed Up Your Site
From Steve Souders, author of High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, comes the following useful 14 “Rules for High Performance Web Sites”: Rule 1 — Make Fewer HTTP Requests Rule 2 — Use a Content Delivery Network Rule 3 — Add an Expires Header Rule 4 — Gzip Components Rule 5 — Put CSS at the Top Rule 6 — Move Scripts to the Bottom Rule […]
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