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Imminent bloat warning: JavaScript size up 48% in one year

May 17, 2012
Websites are getting more dynamic, and more heavily scripted. JavaScript is going through something of a renaissance...

Has the time come for web designers to embrace the SVG image format?

May 15, 2012
Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the...

Dell’s Ubuntu developer ultrabook – Weekend must-read articles #15

May 11, 2012
Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option...

A day in the life of Pingdom – join us May 15

May 11, 2012
“Photograph what is close to you. ...

Pingdom is looking for guest bloggers

May 10, 2012
We’re looking for guest bloggers for this blog, and you could be one of them. If you follow the Royal Pingdom blog, you...

Microsoft hardware design = cool?

May 9, 2012
Microsoft is not the company that comes to mind when you think about great design. Apple, perhaps, but not Microsoft. ...

Google Chrome OS – Weekend must-read articles #14

May 4, 2012
This week we thought you would be interested in reading about what’s been happening with Google’s Chrome OS . ...

No US city among the 50 best-connected cities on the Internet

May 2, 2012
The United States is the “founding father” of the Internet, so it’s somewhat ironic that none of the 50 best-connected cities in the...

10 questions about web performance – James Ward at Heroku

April 26, 2012
In this continuing series  of interviews about web performance, we now turn to cloud application platform provider Heroku . ...

How to secure your Google Drive with TrueCrypt (Pingdom Podcast #21)

April 26, 2012
In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling , Director of Technology Services at  help AG , about security in general and Google...

Did you have Pingdom monitoring on the WWDC site? These guys did!

April 25, 2012
We hope you had Pingdom monitoring for WWDC tickets, as Apple just opened up this year’s ticket sales . ...

Scrutinizing the websites of producers of Gulltaggen 2012 entries

April 24, 2012
Gulltaggen , “The Nordic Premier Digital Marketing Conference,” kicks off today in Norway. It’s an annual awards ceremony, which aims to “stimulate and...

Current status of the “Browser Wars”

April 23, 2012
In this report we will examine the current status of what is often referred to as the “ Browser Wars .” How popular...

World Internet population has doubled in the last 5 years

April 19, 2012
This year the number of Internet users worldwide reached 2.27 billion , almost exactly twice what it was in 5 years ago, 1.15...

Another reason why it’s a good thing Flash is going away

April 19, 2012
Flash usage is declining, and to be perfectly honest, that isn’t a bad thing. ...
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