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How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code.

Published on June 3, 2010 By annie

One of the lesser-known jewels of HTML 5 is link prefetching. The idea is to extend the time-honored concept of image preloading to HTML content (and without any messy AJAX code). Here’s how it works: You add a line like this to your page: <link rel=”next” href=”page2.html”> Then the browser automatically downloads page2.html in a [...]

Page loading times and Google

Published on November 15, 2009 By Pinakin Patel

In a recent interview Matt Cutts said that your sites loading speed will be a huge factor towards the way google ranks it. Google and many people at google believe the web/internet should be fast and so they should reward sites that load quicker and are optimised through reuse of code and parrallel loading. According [...]