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Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets

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July 16, 2008 | Comments: 1
Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets
Website Optimization — Is your site easy to find, simple to navigate, and enticing enough to convert prospects into buyers? Website Optimization shows you how. It reveals a comprehensive set of techniques to improve your site's performance by boosting search engine visibility for more traffic, increasing conversion rates to maximize leads and profits, revving up site speed to retain users, and measuring your site's effectiveness (before and after these changes) with best-practice metrics and tools. Learn more.

What people are saying about this book:

"Andy King has drawn attention to the inherent synergy between search engine marketing and web page performance. Andy is a thought leader and genuinely understands the complexity of website optimization. The depth of research and experience in this book is astonishing. This book is a must-have for best practices to optimize your website and maximize profit." — Tenni Theurer, Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Exceptional Performance

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Jesse Robbins Quote from New York Times

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 5, 2008 | Comments: 0
Jesse Robbins Quote from New York Times
Jesse Robbins, Chair of the Velocity Conference, was quoted in today's New York Times in an article On the Web, More Outrage Over Outages written by Brad Stone. Here's a quote: Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive who was responsible...

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Audio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 1, 2008 | Comments: 0
Audio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing
Luiz Barroso talks about the concept of Energy Proportional computing and how he thinks DRAM and disk manufacturers could do a better job creating devices consume energy in proportion to the computing to perform. Barroso and Holzle analyzed 5000 servers at Google over six months and found the average CPU utilization was between 15-45% - the region in which a computer operates the least efficiently. At issue is the fact that most manufacturers maximize efficiency to SPECpower which assumes that the computer is running at 100% utilization.

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New O'Reilly Radar Report

By O'Reilly Media
June 24, 2008 | Comments: 0
New O'Reilly Radar Report
Velocity: Transforming Web Operations from Cost Center to Competitive Advantage — In the Web 2.0 world, web operations has moved from IT support function to mission-critical competency. In an online business, the web site is inextricably bound to the product. This report lays out the three crucial high-level principles for succeeding with web operations and performance, identifies the eight business principles that should drive web operations strategy, and describes best practices for implementing that strategy. Learn more.

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Now Underway

By O'Reilly Media
June 23, 2008 | Comments: 0
Now Underway
Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference — The place to obtain the crucial skills and knowledge to build successful web sites that are fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available is happening now at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California. Check out all the highlights from the conference.

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Building the Green Data Center

By James Turner
June 20, 2008 | Comments: 2
Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of the Cassatt Corporation, and one of the founders of BEA, has made it his mission to make data centers more energy-efficient. We caught up with him right before the O'Reilly Velocity conference where he is scheduled to speak to get some pointers on making data centers planet-friendly.

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