Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

Google recently stated page load time has become a factor in its search engine ranking algorithm. Although it affects less than 1% of queries, this is still 1% of 100-plus billion searches per month.

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, vice president of product ...

Opera fired a broadside in the web content wars Thursday morning, becoming the first desktop Web browser with built-in ad blocking—and explicitly encouraging users to turn it on to improve their ...

The Internet may put nearly every imaginable piece of information at our fingertips. But when you’re waiting for a Web page or mobile app to load, it can feel more annoying than convenient. Help is ...

Browsing the web might soon be as fast as you've always thought it should be. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new way of displaying web content proven to ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

Issues related to Google Chrome and Web pages that won't load can be caused by problems with your Internet connection or with the browser itself. Determine the cause of the problem before starting to ...

Verizon's network may reach areas that AT&T doesn't, but people stuck with AT&T have told themselves at least AT&T's data network is faster. While this is indeed the case, it doesn't make web pages ...

Last fall, Google claimed that its Chrome 2 Beta browser was “many times faster” than rival browsers at running JavaScript. In February, as it launched the beta of its new browser, Apple asserted that ...