Tag Archives: performance
Google’s “Speed Update”: Page speed is important, but content is king
July 12, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Google just rolled out a mobile “Speed Update” that affects mobile search rankings. You might be wondering what that means for you. What is the “Speed Update”? Page speed is now a ranking factor for mobile pages. Faster pages will rank higher. Everything else being equal, the faster of two pages will rank higher in... Read More
2017: Year in review
December 20, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
As we close in on 2018, it’s that time of year again when we reflect on what’s happened. 2017 has turned out to be another great year for the web. 2017: The year of the PWA There were lots of PWA good-news stories in 2017. We saw PWAs start to be distributed in platform app... Read More
Cryptomining digs deep into our batteries
December 19, 2017, by Mike Eichler
Many websites have recently started using their visitors’ browsers to mine cryptocurrency. A lot of these are of the shadier persuasion, but there are advocates who claim that website mining is the future of monetization. “Your users run the miner directly in their Browser and mine XMR [Monero cryptocurrency] for you in turn for an... Read More
Serving AMP pages to all mobile users
November 10, 2016, by ronan
AMP is growing in importance in the web publishing world. Here at mobiForge we have some serious misgivings with the approach taken by Google with AMP but the speed up in page loading time is inarguable. This post describes a method for exposing AMP pages to all mobile visitors using some server-side device detection so that all mobile... Read More
Caching with service workers, the easy way
September 22, 2016, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Caching is one (just one) of the things that service workers do really well. A good caching policy enables your web app to do some pretty cool things, like serving almost instantaneous responses, smoothing over patchy network connections, and even providing offline functionality. With the right caching you can banish 404 response pages to the... Read More
