“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, vice president of product ...

Researchers at MIT say a framework they've developed for browsers can reduce page load-times by up to 34 percent and enhance data-compression techniques used in Chrome. MIT Computer Science and ...

A website often serves as the first interaction between a prospective customer and a business. The adage "you can only make one first impression" rings true when a user sees a company homepage. With ...

If you run a website of any significant size, odds are you utilize some form of content management system (CMS). WordPress, Drupal, or the like. And, if you don’t use such a system, you probably ...

Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

An organization's IT team is responsible for the speed and performance of its online experience. Most teams monitor performance with page weight calculations, or page load time, but there's a lot more ...

Some Web pages finish loading in an instant, while others load slowly or in pieces at varying speeds, even on the same computer. The factors that add up to slow or irregular Web page loading can cost ...

Facebook has made yet another tweak to its News Feed algorithm as part of its ongoing effort to keep users interested in the content they see on the site. The social media giant said Wednesday that it ...

Is it just me, or as of this past weekend, the Ars web page load time now takes around 5 seconds plus before loading, and forum replies take just as long. It doesn't matter what my DNS is, or if my ...