Category: <span>Site Performance</span>

Search & AMP: Two Must-Haves Moving into the Holiday Season

With the start of September, store owners really only have 60 days to make sure their site is ready for the holiday shopping season. Over the past few years, we’ve seen shoppers take to shopping earlier and earlier thanks to stores pushing out sales and promotions before the traditional start of the season – Black […]

Introducing AMP Wizard for Yahoo! Store

PRODUCT UPDATE:  As of September 2021, AMP Wizard for Yahoo! Store has been discontinued and is no longer available.  Existing Yahoo! Store merchants using AMP Wizard will continue to receive support and security patches/updates as needed.  However, no further enhancements or new sales for this product will be available after September 2021. Today I’m pleased to […]

The Need for Speed Requires a Need for Launch Customers!

When it comes to browsing the web, whether it be on mobile or desktop, speed is paramount. Nobody wants to wait for pages to load, especially those using mobile devices, which is why responsive and adaptive design for websites has become the standard. The “need for speed” forced developers and designers to build sites that […]

Going Responsive is Easier Than You Think

If you’re still using a desktop website and a mobile website, the time has come for upgrading to a responsive design.  If you’re a Turbify Store (formerly Yahoo! Store) and haven’t updated your website to a responsive theme, the time has come – and it’s easier than you may think. Users of Big Commerce and […]

Site Speed – Solutions

There are always options to improve speed, but I wanted to outline a few of the key ones and some quick pros/cons of each. Each service has their own strengths and if you really want to get aggressive, they actually can all four work together (at least on Yahoo! where our services work). One thing […]

Site Speed – Analyzing Test Results

When you run tests using any of the three major online tests (Google Page Speed Insights, Pingdom or WebPageTest), there’s a lot of info to absorb. It would take hours to go over every detail of every report, but I wanted to give you a quick rundown on some of the major messages and what […]

Site Speed – Will Your Site Pass the Test?

One thing that I want to make sure you understand before we get into the various testing tools is how you should test. First, when testing, don’t just test your home page. You’ll want to run tests on the various page types on your site. So test your home page, but for eCommerce also look […]

Site Speed – Why Do We Care?

Well to be honest, most of you at this point realize speed is a big deal. With mobile being an ever larger part of every site’s audience, it matters even more. But let’s pretend you have no idea why you’d care and simply list out a few key factors that you should care about.