Archive for the ‘Webmaster Things’ Category

DFP now officially supports asynchronous rendering!

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Yesterday, DFP launched asynchronous ad loading. For the past few months ive been trying to load ads in a manner where it doesn't affect rest of the page load, this new development is like a dream come true. (The tests above were run on webpagetest.org on IE8 at Dulles, VA) Thank you ...

Evaluating few CDN options

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Recently, I was evaluating CDN options for a client with some unique challenges. We ended up using Amazon CloudFront, but ill detail the options we looked at and what let us to this decision. Some things to note:- We would serve CSS, JS, Images referred to from stylesheets and some website images ...

Attention skeptics: Web Performance Optimization works!

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Today, I was looking into web performance issues for a new client who wishes to remain anonymous and saw an interesting example of value provided by improving performance. One of the first things I do when looking into a new site is look at Google Analytics to understand a little about ...

Complete Asynchronous ad loading using DFP and LABjs

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

UPDATE: The hack is now available on GitHub. 8th May 2011: This seems to be having problems, will investigate and update when i have time. Pls revert to normal DFP tags for now. One of the biggest challenges when optimizing performance of websites is third party content - specifically advertisements. Most ad networks ...

DreamHost: Best customer service ever!

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Please wait for a site operator to respond. You are now chatting with 'Brandon' Brandon: Hi, how may I help you? sajal: hi this is a clients account where im supposed to setup the VPS. its been almost a day since the VPS was requested.... when can i expect it to be provisioned? ...