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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS. Entity Gateway.

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