Last week I wrote about our efforts in speeding up the David Naylor website in an attempt to get a perfect 100 out of 100 score on Google PageSpeed Insights (GPSI). We got close but we’re stuck on one last problem; server response time.
We’ve improved things a little since …
This week we decided to challenge ourselves to achieving a perfect 100 out of 100 score on Google PageSpeed Insights for davidnaylor.co.uk.
So far we’ve failed, but are happy to have moved much closer than the 70/100 for mobile and 81/100 for desktop that we started with a few …
Every fibre of your being tells you that your split test results are wrong and the variation you’ve been running should be converting better than the original.
You’ve not just changed some small bits of copy or reorganised pre-existing content, you’ve built something brand new or included some new feature …
It’s been announced in the news today that Marks & Spencer has experienced an 8.1% fall in sales on their website since a re-launch back in February.
Rumoured to have cost in the region of £150 million any drop in sales is clearly an embarrassment for M&S as well as …
Height has always been something of a problem in web design. There’s never been a very good way to have a grid list of items with equal height, not since the days of table based layouts.
Hard coding heights within CSS offered one solution but with Responsive Web Design and …
Blank faces. This is the response you’ll receive when you mention responsive web design to some clients. In the web community it’s an understood term, one we could talk about for hours but for clients it doesn’t really explain what it is within the term itself nor is it always …
CSS media queries are pretty much the reason why we can now build responsive websites. They allow us to define CSS based on a number of different options but mostly we tend to use min and max width options.
There are three main methods of defining media queries currently…
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After contributing to a Twitter conversation about quality in the web development industry it got us thinking about how do people assess the quality of the work we produce?
There are 4 factors that play a part in a web project:
Customer ServiceIn service based industries customer service is …
If you attended Dave Naylor’s session at SMX London 2014 then you will have spotted a few illustrations within the presentation that represent Google’s Panda and Penguin penalties. We never expected them to be the subject of twitter love…
Dave’s awesome Google bots pic on #SMXLondon @DaveNaylor pic.twitter.com/Q6FjHlBmqD
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Unless you live a long time ago in a galaxy far far away you’ll have noticed Sunday was Star Wars Day. If you’re not a Star Wars geek and don’t understand the significance it’s all down to May 4th (spoken as May the Forth) slotting very nicely into the much …