Aptimize Team Blog

How to make the Techmeme faster

For our latest benchmarking, we’ve looked for common performance themes and added guidance for how to get these sites faster.  Here are the load times of the Techmeme Leaderboard - a highly respected list of the sites that are most frequently linked to by Techmeme’s human editors and aggregation algorithms.  

 Techmeme Fastest and Slowest

Our research shows us how long it takes for each of the sites to load  -  the average sites load time 11.42 seconds. These sites are very rich, content heavy sites – and its interesting to see not only the load times, but the common best and worst practices each is using, and the guidance for making them faster.  The adoption of best practices already gives a big speed difference for sites in the Techmeme leaderboard.  

Click here to read the report and find out what the overall load times, best and worst performance and guidence for overcoming the “5 worst offenders” of bad website performance.

Congrats to Acceloweb - Another Win for WCO

Since Aptimize pioneered web content optimization in 2008, it has been exciting to watch the industry grow, and see new solutions enter the market.  One of these solutions, Acceloweb has just been acquired by Limelight Networks.  Limelight Networks is a content delivery network (CDN), and the acquisition of Acceloweb highlights how the different technologies – ADC, WOC, CDN and now web content optimization work together to deliver the necessary performance needed with today’s applications.

We just published our US Markerboard case study, which shows another example of the correlation between faster website and improved business results.  These metrics are very important, with hard numbers that show the return on investment from accelerating a company’s website or intranet.   We’re looking forward to seeing similar results from Limelight Networks/Acceloweb after they integrate the two solutions together. 

In the earliest days of the market, these tangible proof points were harder to come by – but it seems as though each week lately brings with it a new bit of validation that shows just how rapidly this market is growing.  The WCO case studies and customer stories are not hard to find anymore, this week the Acceloweb acquisition is shining a light on the market, and just last week it was Google who announced site speed reports as a new feature in Google Analytics.  

It's an exciting time for this market, indeed.

Congratulations to Ofer, Leonid and the team at Acceloweb and we wish you all the best for the future.

Webinar: How to speed up your internet or intranet site in 15 minutes!

Making your Internet website or intranet fast is important, and easy to do. All you need is an effective web performance strategy – in this webinar we will show you how.  

We will start off showing you how to measure the speed of your website from all over the world using FREE public domain tools.  Next, we will show you how you can double the speed of your website in 15 minutes.  We also introduce the ROI framework that helps you get cost approval for performance improvements, and look at real world results from real customer websites. We will also talk about how we worked with Microsoft and others to more than double the speed of SharePoint.Microsoft.com,  lync.Microsoft.com and www.buyonlinenow.com sites. 

This presentation will cover ASP.NET and SharePoint websites. You will walk away from this short demo with the knowledge, tools, and techniques you need to increase the speed of your company’s website.

Title:   How to Measure and Speed up your Internet or Intranet Website in 15 minutes!
  
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
  
Time:  9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/912076352

Webinar: Live WAX install demonstrating how to speed up Websites in 15 minutes!


Join our live WAX installation as we demonstrate how to speed up Websites in 15 minutes!  This presentation will cover ASP.NET and SharePoint websites. You will walk away from this short demo with the knowledge, tools, and techniques you need to increase the speed of your company’s website.

Title:   How to Measure and Speed up your Internet or Intranet Website in 15 minutes!
  
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
  
Time:  9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/652605528

 

TechEd Europe in Berlin

tech.ed 2010 Nov 8-12 Berlin German

TechEd Europe is here! November 8-12 in Berlin. TechEd is Microsoft’s biggest developer conference, with thousands of people learning about the latest Microsoft technologies and partner solutions.

It’s a great venue to learn more about how Aptimize WAX combined with Citrix NetScaler can help your business. 

To see demo of Citrix NetScaler and Aptimize WAX together providing the world’s leading solution for SharePoint scalability and performance, visit one of the three Citrix booths: at locations G1, System Center Pavilion SC14, Remote FX pavilion RFX15 in the exhibition hall.

To learn more about Aptimize Accelerator for Citrix NetScaler (NS-WAX) click here