Last week New Relic released the results of a study it conducted on 1 billion Web pages across the world and the findings point out that the pages simply take too long to load. During the one week study, the company monitored page loads across various browsers, both desktop and mobile.
According to the research, it takes an average of six seconds for a Web page to fully load and the biggest chunk of that time is taken up by the browsers, precisely four out of six seconds. The network takes 1.4 seconds of the transaction time, and servers .6 seconds. It is interesting to note that due to the slow page load time, an average Internet user spends ten minutes per day waiting for the web.
New Relic conducted the study using its latest technology called Real User Monitoring which the company included in its on-demand application performance management offering in May this year.
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Facebook can be a great place to market your small business; many of you have set up fan pages and are actively building a Facebook audience. One thing you may not realize, though, is that not all of the messages you share on Facebook are being seen by your fans. In fact, many of the posts you share on your Facebook page will only be seen by a handful of people, regardless of how many fans you have. If you want to know why this is and what you can do to optimize your posts for maximum reach, you’ve come to the right place.
Affinity: Affinity refers to the strength of the Facebook relationship between users. The more a fan interacts with your page by liking or commenting on your content, the higher the affinity will be between them and your page and the higher the chance that your posts will continue to appear in their newsfeed.
What You Can Do: Encourage conversations with fans on your page and start a dialogue. I
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This is a guest post by Nisha Sandhu, Editor at Merchant Account Forum.
Whatever the nature of your business, a merchant account provides a seamless way to collect payment for the goods or services you provide. Merchant accounts are specialized business accounts licensed to accept credit card transactions, usually allowing payment from several major credit cards. If you have an online business, your merchant account must be coupled with an application program interface (API) gateway which actually processes your customer’s credit card payments.
How a merchant account benefits your business:
Being able to accept credit cards is essential to any business. The more convenient you can make the shopping experience, the more attractive your business is to potential customers. W
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Ford Motor Corp. held a live web chat focusing on their hybrid Technology program, Chuck Gray, Ford Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Chief Engineer, and Bob Taenaka, Ford Battery Technical Lead fielded questions from an inquisitive bunch of webbies.
The chat opened with a brief statement touting the merits of Fords hybrid taxi fleet that has logged 80 million miles in California emphasizing the fact that’s quadruple the miles of Toyota’s Prius lineup. A quick mention that the taxi drivers were pleasantly surprised there were so few issues five according to Ford. An obligatory marketing quote that a “leading consumer magazine rated the Ford Fusion Hybrid “most reliable of the hybrids or conventional models available,” conspicuously omitting the name of the aforementioned magazine.
The first question was about the length of warranty Ford Hybrids will have in California accentuating maximum battery life. Engineer
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I’m loving Slate’s Top Right idea, the use of a quadrant graph to represent how people (or institutions) balance innovation and pragmatism.
In their case, the X-axis on the graph represents innovation while the Y-axis is pragmatism. When you apply this quadrant to people, in their words,
“The center point is where most of us live–competent, occasionally imaginative. The bottom left quadrant–dull and incompetent–is a hell of surly DMV clerks… The upper-left quadrant, practical but dull, is where you’ll find capable managers, derivative thinkers, and shopping-mall developers. The bottom-right quadrant, innovative but impractical, is an elevated Blimp City financed through a flat tax and powered by solar panels.”
“And then there’s the Top Right.
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