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Why Your Website Should Use A CDN (Content Delivery Network)

by Jeff Weisbein December 24, 2009
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The other day I wrote a post, “What Is A CDN?” where I explained what exactly a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is, how it works, and what it does.  I’d like to elaborate a bit on the post and go into a few of the things you can do with a CDN, how it could [...]

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Google Considers Ranking Sites Based on Loading Speed

by Jeff Weisbein November 17, 2009
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In a recent video interview with Google’s Matt Cutt’s, he hints that Google is considering using a site’s speed as part of the algorithm that ranks the order of pages in its search results.  To break it down quite simply, fast sites might rank higher, while slower-loading sites might suffer in the results.  Of course, [...]

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Why Page Load Times Are Important

by Jeff Weisbein June 6, 2009
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Recently, Google announced they were open sourcing one of their internal tools called Page Speed.  Page Speed can be used in conjunction with the Firefox plugin Firebug (install Firebug then install Page Speed).  The tool will analyze any web page and provide useful information and feedback that you can use to help improve the pages [...]

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