What are the most noticeable figures of 1st June 2014? What has changed on the web since 2013? New statistics and presentation of data published by httparchive.org, which compiles statistics on more than 300,000 websites twice a month.
Score is More Relevant – New Best Practices Added
We just released our new update (#11) and your score might have changed. Let’s see what we improved this time.
Enhanced rating system
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Extended Backup and New Features
The new update (#10) is online, what’s new?
In this update, we both set up new features, and improved the already existing content.
Useful tips to start with WordPress
Nowadays, one of the first steps when you create a website is to adopt a CMS. It allows to save time, so you can deploy a website quickly. According to wappalyzer, more than 60% of the websites using a CMS are powered by WordPress (source: https://www.wappalyzer.com/categories/cms). We ourselves have decided to use WordPress for its simplicity (exceptionally, web performance was not our major criterion!)
Hourly Monitoring and other Professional Features
Here we go! DareBoost just opened its offers for professionals.
Of course, a lot of features are still available for free (don’t forget to configure a monitoring on your homepage !)
This blog post aims to do a quick review of available features with our business offers.
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How to improve jQuery performance
You have probably ever heard of best practices to improve your website’s quality and performance (configure a cache policy, enable gzip compression…).
However, web performance doesn’t stop to follow general best practices: each technology has its own specific recommendations. Some mistakes are quite trivial, but some others can be painful for your website. The addition of several minor errors can really slow down your final product. That’s why you should always think about performance upstream and during the development step.
New Update
(Discount Inside!)
The last update (#9) is online, what’s new?
This update is not a major one. Indeed we focused our work to prepare the next release, that will be a heavy one ;)
Website Monitoring Available
The last update (#8) is online, what’s new?
If you are a regular reader, you may have noticed that update #7 was not announced: sorry for that, my time was running out to write a post!
Website Monitoring : Avoid Costly Mistakes
Test the mobile version of your website
The new update (#6) is online, what’s new?
Analyze web performance of your mobile website
We started our work on mobile test features few weeks ago . We are glad to announce that you can now test your mobile pages, with an emulated Nexus 5 device, from both our locations (Paris and New York).
Download your performance report as PDF
The new update (#5) is online, what’s new?
PDF report available
This feature was very awaited, so we are glad to announce you can now download your performance report as a PDF file. We still have some improvements on the styles, but we hope you will find it useful.
DareBoost offers
a better UX
The new update (#4) is online, what’s new?
User eXperience improvements
Since December 2013, there are more and more users on our beta service, more than 12.000 websites have already been analyzed .
Some of our users give us feedback (that’s very appreciated, so thanks !). We have worked on major issues detected among all launched analyses.
Save your performance reports with DareBoost
The new update (#3) is online, you can now create a free account !
Free account
We have just added the account management to DareBoost. You can create an account as soon as possible, it will make us happy to have more and more users ;)
But what are the benefits for you? Performance and quality reports are now automatically saved for logged-in users. At any moment, you’ll be able to consult your old reports .
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W3C validators results are available with DareBoost
This announce is a few days late, but we have recently updated our product (#2), what are the changes?
W3C validators results
Detailed results are now available for both (x)HTML and CSS W3C validators. DareBoost make your work easier by given you whole information about a problem when detecting one. The results are the same that the ones provided by the official W3C online validator.
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Your favorite timeline on DareBoost
We have recently updated our product, so what has changed ?
Timeline integration
You can access this feature by clicking on “See details” just below the number of requests on the report’s summary. It will display a popin, showing HTTP traffic related to your website’s analysis (with waiting times, DNS lookup…). We use HarViewer to display these information. It’s a great tool and you have probably seen it somewhere else, in Firebug plugin for instance.
Test your website now
We are very proud to launch DareBoost today as a beta version. We are working to integrate more features quickly, including a backoffice allowing you to monitor your website.
So, what’s in this first beta version ? Obviously not as much as we would want !
Nevertheless, it’s a great tool for you. Thanks to the analysis form on our homepage, you will be able to test any page on the web, with three browsers (Firefox 24.1.0 and 25.0, Chrome 30.0). For now, only one location is available: please tell us in the comments below the next one you wish us to install ;).
Our new office !
A few days ago, we moved in our new office in Rennes (France), in the Maison de la Technopole, a building shared by Rennes Atalante and the INPI (French Patent and Trademark Office).
Optimize your website: what should you challenge?
In this blog, the “Best Practices” category will contain discussions about tips and rules for a faster and better website. But first, what does website optimization mean? That’s a very huge topic. Here are some key figures on the websites performance optimization:
A load time increased of 400 milliseconds resulted in a loss of 9% of Yahoo’s traffic.
source: http://fr.slideshare.net/stoyan/yslow-20-presentation
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Web Performance & Front-End Optimization
Why FEO (Front-End Optimization) ?
Considering the top 1000 websites (according to Alexa figures), average page weight has been mutiplied by 2 in the past 2 years (october 2011 – october 2013), with an average weight now exceeding 1,5MB.