December 31, 2003
Overall, broadband grew by 0.62 percentage points in November, with 41.5% of Internet-connected U.S. households enjoying a high-speed connection. 58.5% of US home users dial into the Internet with "narrowband" connections of 56Kbps or less.
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December 17, 2003
By combining external files and optionally including CSS and JavaScript directly within your XHTML pages, you can minimize the number of HTTP requests required to render your page. Each unique HTTP request requires a round trip to a server, introducing indeterminate delays. Users attune to fast, consistent response times. The more HTTP requests that your pages require, the slower and less consistent their response time will be.
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December 10, 2003
By combining the grouping of selectors that share the same declaration and declarations that share the same selector you can apply multiple declarations to multiple selectors. This technique allows you to create compact yet powerful CSS rules. This tip combines
Group Selectors with
Group Declarations into one powerful technique.
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December 4, 2003
HTTP compression, otherwise known as content encoding, is a publicly defined way to compress textual content transferred from web servers to browsers. HTTP compression uses public domain compression algorithms, like gzip and compress, to compress XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and other text files at the server. This standards-based method of delivering compressed content is built into HTTP 1.1, and most modern browsers that support HTTP 1.1 support ZLIB inflation of deflated documents. In other words, they can decompress compressed files automatically, which saves time and bandwidth.
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