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A new study conducting by performance monitoring vendor Apica and 3Gem adds more weight to the idea that developers should design their websites to load quickly. The findings included the following: 77 percent of users expect websites to load faster today than they did three years ago. 40 percent of respondents won’t wait more than […]

SEO platform vendor BridghtEdge has released a new report that finds that 57 percent of US searches come from smartphones or tablets. Younger users and people conducting certain categories of searches (such as restaurants) are even more likely to be using mobile devices. The report added, “The same query on the same search engine generated […]

A new report from Augustine Fou, an independent ad fraud researcher, finds widespread fraud within the online advertising industry, due primarily to the widespread use of bots. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that Fou decided to publish his report earlier than usual. He said, “It’s about 60 to 100 percent fraud, with […]

Microsoft has posted some new infographics related to its Bing search engine under the headline “Bing is bigger than you think!” According to the company (using data from comScore), Bing is responsible for 12 billion searches per month, or about 9 percent of the worldwide total. Five billion of those monthly searches originate in the […]

Google is reportedly testing a new version of its mobile search app that consumes less data. The app may be called Search Lite or Search (Test App), and it appears to be targeted at the Indonesian and/or Indian markets. The app’s settings allow users to choose to see only lite Web pages in their search […]

Web developers looking for an open source content management and blogging platform have a new alternative to WordPress. Developer John O’Nolan has released the 1.0 version of Ghost. “About four years ago we launched Ghost on Kickstarter as a tiny little prototype of an idea to create the web’s next great open source blogging platform,” […]

Netlify, a startup that offers Web development software, has raised $12 million in series A funding from several investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, Designer Fund and Tank Hill Ventures. Netlify’s solution aims to speed the development of websites and improve the performance of those sites. It integrates with Git and Netlify’s content delivery network, […]

Following the eruption of violence at protests in Charlottesville, Web hosting provider GoDaddy has given a prominent white supremacist site 24 hours to move to a new provider. GoDaddy said that the Daily Stormer’s coverage of the events in Charlottesville “could incite additional violence,” which violated the company’s terms of service. In addition, hackers claiming […]

Web developers who haven’t been optimizing their sites for Samsung Internet, the smartphone maker’s mobile browser, may want to reconsider. In the past, the browser was available only to those with Samsung devices. Now, the Korean firm has made the browser available for free to all Android users with Android L or later. Samsung Internet […]

A new Evans Data survey commissioned by GoDaddy finds that nearly 80 percent of Web developers are experiencing at least 25 percent client growth per year. About a third of developers surveyed said their client lists grew by more than 50 percent, and about the same number have revenues exceeding half a million dollars per […]

A new study by password manager vendor Dashlane finds that 46 percent of consumer websites do not require strong passwords. The study assigned websites a score based on whether they required passwords of a certain length and complexity, offered a password strength assessment tool, resisted brute force attacks with CAPTCHA technology and required two-factor authentication. […]

WordPress.com, one of the most popular blog and website hosting services, has announced that it will begin allowing business-tier accounts to use third-party themes and plug-ins. The WordPress software has a library of thousands of these third-party add-ons that are very popular with users. However, until now, WordPress users were not able to use them […]