Fast loading times are a really important factor when it comes to website ranking, so it’s important to remove as much unnecessary data as possible. A good method to do this is via cookieless domains.
Cookieless domains are (as the name suggests) are domains, in which the user will not send cookies (Which can add quite a few kilobytes to a request). For example, say I want a user to load a static image it would be silly of them to also send me the cookie data. Luckily they are super easy to set up.
Within the next few hours I will be releasing an update to my Google Chrome extension Twitter Status URL Shortener. It’s a worthwhile update, mostly because I’ve been meaning to update it for a while and I’ve made a few neat adjustments based on feedback.
Some of the key changes are:
The icon no longer takes up real estate next to the URL bar.
Smarter URL shortening i.e. if the URL is shorter or about the same length as the shortened URL it will not bother shortening it.
It’s faster! I adjusted the speed a little and now it’s a little more suitable for fast typing users.
Support for goo.gl.
Caching was also added, which makes tweeting URL’s multiple times faster.
I just finished my first alpha release of a new Google Chrome Extension I’m working on, it’s called Twitter Status URL Shortener and it shortens URL’s in your Twitter status box on the fly. Here is a short video of me using it.
Google Chrome is well known for being very fast at rendering web pages, but based on an update on the Google Student Blog it appears to be mind bogglingly snappy. To give you a sense of how snappy, take a look at this video comparing Chromes rendering to the speed to a potato.
Recently Google Announced a new exciting product called Google Chrome Frame. Which is an add-on for Internet Explorer which offers Internet Explorer users all the features of other browsers without having to install a different browser (When a certain Meta tag is used on a web page)? The video Google released explains the product in a little more detail.
