I mentioned in my previous post that recently I have been working
with web performance. Often when working with clients they want
fast performing web sites but then proceed to give you all manner
of other requirements which slow the site down to a crawl.
Convincing a client to give you the time to look at performance
isn't easy, while the gains in speed are there for all to see
attributing some monetary value to that is close to impossible.
In the longer term you might see an up turn in the traffic levels
or a higher percentage of people taking a longer user journey on
your site but whether that was a result of higher performance is
very difficult to prove.
Thankfully one of our larger clients could see the benefit of
having a dedicated resource looking at performance issues, all be
it as a result of such poor performance that the sites became
difficult to use during peek times. When a client keeps throwing
stuff at you it's easy to …
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26
2009
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