Steve Sauders, the master of building fast websites, wrote up a very nice summary how JavaScript is loaded by different browsers and how you can optimize your page performance by following a few techniques he outlines.

We have a lot of customers that either have 3rd part widgets on their site or provide them to other websites. In either case, they are often concerned that the JavaScript on the page isn’t slowing down the user experience.

If you’re in the business of selling or using widgets, read Steve’s article and double check that the widgets you’re working with use some of these techniques. Otherwise, your website visitors will be the ones suffering when there may be a very simple fix that shaves hundreds of milliseconds off page load times!

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Bob Walsh, known for his popular 47hats blog and Startup Success Podcast, recently published an overview of how cloud computing and crowd-sourcing was changing the way software startups operate. In the article, Bob talks about BrowserMob, uTest, and UserTesting as well as several other interesting cloud- and crowd-based services.

The article is definitely worth a read and, if you haven’t already listened to Bob’s podcast, you can learn more about us, uTest, and UserTesting in some recent podcast episodes:

• Show #18: Patrick Lightbody, browsermob.com
• Show #20: UserTesting.com – disruptive usability testing.
• Show #22: Crowdsourced bug detection with uTest.

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