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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

SQLite tests miss the spirit of the database tests by avoiding network communication to a secondary server (a database server), making them a bit similar to our future caching-enabled test type. The SQLite tests may return once we have the caching test type specified and implemented. About TechEmpower.

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Is Your WordPress Website Optimised?

YoungUpstarts

WordPress is one of the world’s greatest, if not the greatest, open-source platforms available. Powering over 26% of the world-wide web, it is the world’s most popular Content Management System with a market share of over 54%! The second area to help improve your WordPress website speed is to enable caching.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Number of Users.

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11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

According to Strangeloop , who tested the load times of the top 2,000 retail websites, web pages keep getting bigger, the average site takes 10 seconds to load. While Jakob Nielsen says people can handle up to 10 second load time , consider this: 47% of people expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. WebPageTest.

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10 Grammar and Proofreading Tools for Content Marketers

Duct Tape Marketing

Adding this software to your web browser means you can take it anywhere with you and use it to find and fix mistakes in your social media posts or anywhere else you go online. Turn to this annotated collection of grammar and writing resources from across the web when you’ve got questions about the rules. UK Writings.

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14 predictions for 2014 that media experts find unlikely

The Next Web

Yes, while most companies are probably not taking full advantage of things such as their CRM/Email Lists, unless you have a large cache of proprietary data – such as large amount of data flows stemming from log-ins, email lists, etc. Either way, here’s one prediction I’m willing to make: read The Next Web daily for a very successful 2014.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.