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The Website Obesity Crisis

In conversations with web performance advocates, I sometimes feel like a hippie talking to SUV owners about fuel economy. They have all kinds of weirdly specific tricks to improve mileage. Deflate the front left tire a little bit.

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    Kill all browser plugins

    In the last few years all big players on the internet, started adopting HTML5 for video streaming. Like YouTube, Netflix and all kinds of news websites.

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      About labels and icons

      In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.

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      100 Things You Should Know About People

      100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application.

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      The $300 Million Button

      The number of customers purchasing went up by 45%. The extra purchases resulted in an extra $15 million the first month. For the first year, the site saw an additional $300,000,000.

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      Zebra Striping

      Zebra striping—also known as candy striping or half-shadow—is the application of faint shading to alternate lines or rows in data tables or forms.

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      iPhone orientation detection

      Here is the most basic JavaScript to get the iPhone orientation detection going...

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      Validating email addresses is hard

      Validating email addresses is hard...