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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

I need your help with SpeedFactor!

It’s been over 2 months since I launched SpeedFactor. And over these months, I have made a lot of progress.…

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

SpeedFactor Summary: November 23, 2019

What started as a random experiment and an attempt to replicate the Google Lighthouse audit has turned into a complex…

Thursday, November 7, 2019

SpeedFactor Summary: November 7, 2019

Here’s the latest updates, changes and additions to SpeedFactor: Security Added server exposure checks for HTTP headers (Powered By and…

Monday, November 4, 2019

SpeedFactor Summary: November 4, 2019

I’ll lay out some of the plans for the final version, which is going live on December 1st. SpeedFactor Development…

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

SpeedFactor Launched!

SpeedFactor is finally public! While still in Beta, the service works as expected. It has a free forever plan and…

Sunday, November 3, 2019

SpeedFactor Summary: November 3, 2019

Three days after the planned launch and countless bugs fixed and new features added, I give you the official SpeedFactor…

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Estimated Reading Time in Web Design

Users don’t read (more than 18%) About 11 years ago, Jakob Nielsen wrote an “Alertbox” titled How little do users read?.…

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Community Guidelines Boilerplate

These are sample guidelines for your own guest blogging platform. I have been using them for my own, but that…

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Guest Blogger Guidelines Boilerplate

Guest Posting Isn’t Dead… These are sample guidelines for your own guest blogging platform. I have been using them for…

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Why Growth Hacking? How Product and Marketing are Directly Correlated

This is a guest post by Casey Armstrong. It’s 7am. You roll over and grab your phone to start checking on…

Saturday, October 12, 2019

How do you struggle with blog growth?

Hundreds of thousands of blogs are on the internet now, and most likely there are many in your own industry,…

Saturday, October 12, 2019

17 Tips For Emailing A Cold List Without People Hating You

OK, so you have this large, “targeted” email list. So you say to yourself: “Self, I’ve got this list of…