5 years gone

unbelievable. for nearly 5 years I have written no more articles in this weblog. with this post everything will change :) would be nice to know what search engines like google think about such a strange behaviour.

Fun with Contingency Domains (plus URLSpellChecking)
At Port80 Software Blog you will find an interesting article about URL typos and how contingency domains can help as well. So visit their blog and read more about Fun with Contingency Domains (plus URLSpellChecking). Optimization of Traffic and Minimization of Errors. Simple and efficient.

Google's Web-Accelerator
Google released the free .Google Web Accelerator , a software intended to speed up your web browsing experience. Google acts as a giant proxy network in order to store and prefetch the necessary data. Even something like an incremental handling of data is implemeted in the tool. Actually the speed up is accomplished for broadband connections. Besides this positiv features there are some privacy concerns. acting as a proxy gives google the chance to track every single step that you respectively your browser makes while surfing around the www. big brother is watching you.

w3compiler - the optimization tool

Optimize your source code for faster and safer Web site delivery with w3compiler from Port80 Software. Developers can optimize JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ASP and CFM files as a final pre-deployment step that will save bandwidth, speed up pages and secure source code. Free trial download at http://www.w3compiler.com.

Perhaps the best tool you can get for such optimization jobs, especially the javascript optimization produces code that works better than every other tool we tested so far.

An interesting method to accelerate your internet connection is SaferSurf. It's a service that is integrated into your internet connection and compresses all requested data. Your internet browser decompresses the data and displays the web pages at a faster rate. Comparable to the usage of mod_gzip on an Apache webserver, but this service acts as a proxy service and is therefore independent of your internet provider or type of connection. Very interesting if you have internet access at low bandwith. Especially suitable for mobile end devices.

Open Thumbshots Project

A very interesting and usable information - a small preview (thumbshot) of a webpage - allows users to visualize links and go deeper into the directory with the help of thumbshots.org. This is a kind of usability optimization. In order to keep load and download time small the service makes use of image optimization. The images are delivered in the jpeg-format, and most interesting, they deliver the images with Content-Encoding: gzip. Don't know whether this form of double compression makes much sense i.e. savings.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year