Swenzy Floods The Daily Dot’s Twitter with Fake Followers Swenzy is a company that offers marketing services on social media sites. They offer fake YouTube views, Facebook likes, and Twitter followers. The Daily Dot has recently received an additional 75,000 viewers and counting. Because of the extra boost, 85% of The Daily Dot’s followers are now fake. If The Daily Dot didn’t write an article  of their experience, Twitter would’ve most likely took some form of action. The Daily Dot also stated that it was a DDoS attack. Unfortunately, the writer was wrong. The method of the attack is more […]

The Popularity of Vine, BuzzFeed, and GIFs Are you looking for something amusing, short, interesting, or funny on the web? My answer to you would be GIFs. An example of a site that incorporates GIFs would be Buzzfeed. Generally, here’s an idea of Buzzfeed’s guideline for writing: Gather Ideas for Top 10 List. Write One Sentence for Each Point. Deploy GIFs as Examples. Repeat. The Trending of GIFs The popularity of GIFs have inspired websites like Buzzfeed and mobile apps like Vine, which enables users to create and post seven second video clips. As the trend continues to grow, companies […]

Speeding Up Your Mobile App Mobile users are expecting top web performance. Their expectation of mobile equates to their experience on desktop. Bryan Mcquade covered his team’s mobile web (anti-)patterns with the end goal of getting their site to load from 20 seconds to a little over one second. He identifies critical CSS and compares pros and cons of inlining the critical CSS in HTML. This is important because the Critical Rendering Path refers to all the elements the browser requires before painting a web page. Prioritizing which assets on the CRP is a must for mobile devices. Bryan gives […]

Presenting Web Performance to More Businesses Mobile web performance will continue to grow at a rapid rate in 2014. Shoppers are expected to make more transactions on mobile platforms compared to traditional desktop. With no signs of slowing down, customers are also expecting retail mobile sites to perform at the same speed as their desktop site. Prior to the new year, a few retailers started their resolutions earlier by optimizing their smartphone sites. The drugstore chain CVS was indexed with 30 other retailers with an average load time of 7.00 seconds. By cleaning their site, CVS managed to have a […]