Tag Archives: Speed

The Speed Wars: How Amazon, Target and Walmart Are Competing for Faster Delivery Times

Michael Begg — November 9, 2019 eCommerce competition seems to be largely driven on one point now – at least the platforms seem to think so. Delivery times have been dropping rapidly over the past year as each major retailer and eCommerce platform attempts to provide better convenience to the end customer. Each of Amazon, … Continue reading The Speed Wars: How Amazon, Target and Walmart Are Competing for Faster Delivery Times →

Strategic Leadership: Slowing Down to Speed Up

Leadership Skills

Jeanne Hardy — November 5, 2019 Follow @creativebizinc mohamed_hassan / Pixabay In a business culture seemingly dominated by the mantra “Fail fast, fail often,” we spend a lot of time praising companies for doing things fast—for being fastest to market, quickest to respond, most agile to pivot—but we often don’t recognize the businesses that know … Continue reading Strategic Leadership: Slowing Down to Speed Up →

The Need for Speed in Analytics

Analytics

Sarah Gaffney — August 8, 2019 — August 8, 2019 Lalmch / Pixabay Even though Usain Bolt ran the 100m dash in 9.58 seconds, his speed is no match for the sub-second-by-second power of real-time analytics. Programmers are always searching for new ways to access larger volumes of data with greater speed and ease. This … Continue reading The Need for Speed in Analytics →

Best Page Speed Tools

Website Speed Improvement

Garry Grant — May 17, 2019 Follow @seoinc — May 17, 2019 Best Page Speed Tools for 2019 I’ve talked about page speed and its importance to SEO recently, so I thought I’d take things a little further and give you a more in-depth review of some of the best page speed tools available today. … Continue reading Best Page Speed Tools →

Where Does the Efficiency and Speed from Agile Come From?

Project Management

David Dame — April 9, 2019 — April 9, 2019 Production View (Build Fast) Many large legacy organizations are moving toward agile delivery methods in hopes of releasing faster to market. Based on my experiences, they look at it solely from a production view of getting software released faster and more often. This view has … Continue reading Where Does the Efficiency and Speed from Agile Come From? →

Improve Onboarding and Trial Conversion Speed with Personalized Emails

Email Personalization

Nic Winters — January 18, 2019 — January 18, 2019 In the SaaS world, getting users to understand the value of your platform and adopt it into their daily lives is of utmost importance. When prospects take a free trial, you want them to quickly see how easy your solution is to use and why … Continue reading Improve Onboarding and Trial Conversion Speed with Personalized Emails →

Speed, Schema, and Search Engines: The SEO Trends of 2019

SEO Trends

Wendy Lindars — January 6, 2019 Follow @enx2marketing — January 6, 2019 Wait a minute. How did it become 2019? Did 2018 just start? I could have sworn I wrote a similar blog just last month! Anyways, 2018 has come and gone, and it wasn’t too crazy in the world of SEO. The most significant … Continue reading Speed, Schema, and Search Engines: The SEO Trends of 2019 →

Ask the SMXpert — Page speed, site migrations and crawling

Marketing Guide

Our SMXperts share their tactical insights on optimizing crawl budgets, fine-tuning page speed and how to execute on large-scale error-free site migrations. Debra Mastaler on September 19, 2018 The Ask an SMXpert series continues the Q&A segment held during sessions at SMX Advanced 2018 in Seattle. Today’s Q&A is from the Advanced Technical SEO: Page … Continue reading Ask the SMXpert — Page speed, site migrations and crawling →

How to rev up your page speed for better website performance

Website Speed Improvement

Improving page speed isn’t some arcane and mysterious dark art. Contributor Jeremy Knauff reviews everything from plug-ins to CDNs and points out what you can do to improve your page speed without a bunch of hocus-pocus. Jeremy Knauff on August 10, 2018 at 10:24 am Page speed is now a ranking factor on mobile search. That … Continue reading How to rev up your page speed for better website performance →

3 free tools to comprehensively test page speed

Website Speed Improvement

Contributor Marcus Miller outlines how to use 3 free tools that test page speed and work to turn your site into a lean, mean, speedy fighting machine. Marcus Miller on August 6, 2018 Having a fast site is important, since faster sites are rewarded with improved search engine optimization (SEO) and the ability to … Continue reading 3 free tools to comprehensively test page speed →