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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat.

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). The solution to these problems is to load scripts asynchronously.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â?? APAC Summer Tour.

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