The latest version of our Website Accelerator - WAX (2.1) is now available. If you already have an account you can get the latest version from your 'Downloads' page. If you want to try WAX for the first time just create an account for access to the download.
Interview with Michael Martin of ResourceNation - Android’s impact on the mobile market makes website speed even more important as the amount of people that will make purchasing decisions and do business using them is about to accelerate in 2010.
“… a micro millisecond difference, but that’s gonna be part of the factors of 2010.”
We revamped our website last week and added a few new ways to get in touch.
Live chat
Live Chat opens a browser window and you can chat with our team. We think it’s important you’re talking to our company – not an anonymous call center, so when you start a chat you’ll be talking to a developer, business manager or even the CEO. Ask anything you want.
Phone support
Use the USA toll-free number to speak to a USA business manager, or dial the international number to talk to our HQ in New Zealand.
24-7 phone support
We are also now offering a 24-7 technical support service with 60 minute response time, chat or phone us for pricing details of this service.
Grab a cup of coffee, here's Ed's interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com. Andrew does live online interviews with business leaders to share their experiences and business tips. The theme of Ed's interview is how startups sell to Fortune 500 companies.
Business Tips via Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart!
In the past month Google has been preparing website owners and developers for its intent to encourage and reward fast websites.
Speed has become very important to Google - not only does it want its users to have a high quality user experience, it also wants to speed up your access to their services.
Ranking. Fast websites will be favored over slow websites in its search results.
SPDY Protocol. HTTP alternative that reduces latency, increases website speed.
Google Analytics. Faster tracking code load times for web pages.
Site Performance: Google Webmaster Central tool. Presents information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.
Google Public DNS. Promising faster browsing speeds.
And, the latest Speed Tracer. Helps diagnose web application speed blocks.
At its latest Campfire event this week, Google introduced version 2.0 of the Google Web Toolkit; a set of programming tools designed to simplify the development of web applications and maximize your web performance.
One of the new tools introduced was Speed Tracera Google Chrome extension that allows developers to profile web application performance and identify sources of slowness.
Speed Tracer charts the speed of your web application on a graph, where a score close to zero on the Y-axis means your application is fast, and a score near 100 means it's slow. You can use Speed Tracer to diagnose what's slowing your application down ,according to Google, it can analyze "JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style recalculation and selector matching, DOM event handling, network resource loading, timer fires, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, painting, and more."
The latest version of our Website Accelerator - WAX (2.1) is now available. If you already have an account you can get the latest version from your 'Downloads' page. If you want to try WAX for the first time just create an account for access to the download.
