Image via Wikipedia "Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the brothers was being tested by our slow Internet." FATHER DANIEL VAN SANTVOORT, Cistercian monk, on his Welsh island community's decision to get broadband. Source I've written several times about the need to have an efficient website, which can run fast enough for everyone to use. However, I guess some people didn't get the message, and have caused the Monks to run out of … [Read more...]
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posted on August 2, 2008 by Walter Wimberly
Monks Get Broadband
Filed Under: Web Design Tagged With: Broadband, internet, monk, optimize, slow Internet, website, Welsh island
posted on July 9, 2008 by Walter Wimberly
Optimize your site for more users
We've talked in the past about optimizing your web site so it runs a quickly as possible. This is nice of course as no one wants to wait for your pages to load. And with so many people having high-speed internet access, people's desire to wait has gone down. (High speed access isn't a license to triple your page size!) We've also pointed out how Google is using your page load time now as a factor for where to rank your "pay-per-click" adwords ads. Well now a new survey has come out that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Web Development Tagged With: ad words, Broadband, google, high-speed internet, high-speed internet access, optimization