
Torbit Delivers Insights into Website Speed
We’ve long known that small incremental improvements in website speed pay dividends in terms of higher conversion rates. Traditionally however there has been something of a disconnect with website performance vendors focusing closely on developing improved speed functionality on the one hand, and website owners unsure of what (if any) speed issues they face on […]

Aptimize Speeds Up Microsoft
I’ve posted before about Aptimize, the startup trying to singlehandedly speed up the web. Their Website Accelerator product has just been given a strong endorsement by Microsoft who are using it to speed up their SharePoint public site. Aptimize have published some statistics of the benefits Microsoft is seeing with the solution; Original Aptimized […]
Some Small Players Beating the Odds
Most readers will be aware that I live on a small(ish) lump of rock in the South Pacific. This remoteness from all things Valley-ish (and this remoteness, it must be said, from all things) gives me a somewhat one-eyed perspective. I’m always careful to not over push the New Zealand thing – my personal blog […]

It's All About Speed
There’s a number of barriers that SaaS vendors (and for that matter anyone who wants people to engage with them online) need to overcome. Some of these barriers are technical and some cultural. One of the technical issues is the speed of transaction (and I mean transaction not in the buying/selling sense of the word […]