This article provides you with a good number of useful techniques that will help you optimize your PNG-images. The techniques are derived from laborious hours spent on studying how exactly the PNG encoder saves data.
The popular Toms Hardware site pits Chrome 16, Firefox 9, IE 9, Opera 11.60, and Safari 5.1 against each other in a performance shoot out on both OS X and Windows 7. Firefox took the crown on Windows and Safari on OS X.
Web pages are getting more bloated, and here’s why
Over the past year, web pages have on average become 25% bigger. We’re not talking about dimensions here, but download size. Based on the top 1,000 websites on the Internet, the average page size has gone from 626 kB to 784 kB.
A 25% size increase in just one year is rather drastic. With that kind of growth, the average web page will be 980 kB in just a year (amost 1 MB!). In five years, a page will be almost 2.4 MB. And that’s just an average, many pages will be significantly larger.
An interesting look at some of the CSS and JavaScript-based approaches to improving your typography in the browser. As the author says: “There is no excuse to not create print-quality typography on the web.”
Users of Google Map links for their websites will be charged for heavy usage of the service, it has been revealed. From 1 January 2012, Google will charge for the Google Maps API service when more than the limit of 25,000 map “hits” are made in a day.
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