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Search Engine Roundtable ::: The Pulse Of The Search Marketing Community

http://www.seroundtable.com/ Christopher Soghoian noticed that the developer trunk of Firefox added as a default to use Google's HTTPS search. Danny Sullivan did some information seeking and confirmed Firefox has intentions to release this as the default Google search behavior in the near fu
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Piwik - Web analytics - Open source

http://piwik.org/ In laymens terms, you can check out who has been visiting your page, when, how and why. You can create Goals and track conversions. You can track unlimited number of websites, and create users with permission to view or administrate one or several websites. Real time web analytics reports : in Piwik, reports are by default generated in real time. For high traffic websites, you can choose the frequency for reports to be processed ( more info )

Let's make the web faster - Google Code

There are many ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are useful for other web developers. This article contains various statistics about web pages, including details about embedded resources such as images, scripts and stylesheets. Gzip compression helps reduce the time required to download web pages. https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/
And I’d add that you don’t need all these skills in any particular measure to make it in web design. But to be a fully rounded web professional, this is my take on the ideal make-up. I’m convinced the #1 most important skill for a web designer is the ability to use words effectively. A truly effective web designer is more highly skilled with writing and editing copy than with producing graphics in Photoshop. http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/blog/top-10-skills-for-web-design/

The 10 Most Important Skills You Need to be a Web Designer

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Eye tracking study reveals 12 website tactics

Eye tracking studies have revealed valuable information about how people read and interact with websites. One study, Eyetrack III, published a summary of their eye tracking results for news sites . While this is just one eye tracking study focused on a particular type of site, I think there are instructive nuggets here for any informational website. In no particular order, here are 12 results I found particularly interesting.