Tag Archives: Firefox

Asynchronous Google Analytics is Better but Not Faster

July 29, 2010

In December 2009, Google launched the asynchronous version of the Google Analytics script. The update aimed to address potential script blocking problems that have been extensively researched and reported by Steve Souders at Google. Steve’s blog post about the new asynchronous loading of Google Analytics identified three potential benefits: Your pages should load faster Availability or performance problems at Google should have less impact on your site Analytics data is more likely to be collected if a user leaves a page early Before applying the change to our web site we decide to compare the new and old versions of … Continue reading →

Four Tips for Setting up HTTP File Downloads

March 24, 2010

Web sites don’t just contain pages; sometimes you need to provide files that users can download. Putting a file on your web server and linking to it from an HTML page is just the first step. You also need to be aware of the HTTP response headers that affect file downloads. These four tips cover some of the issues you may run into: Tip #1: Forcing a Download and Controlling the File Name Providing a download link in the HTML is easy: … <a href="http://download.httpwatch.com/httpwatch.exe">Download</a> … It works well for binary files like setup programs and ZIP archives that the … Continue reading →

Firefox 3.6 and HttpWatch

January 22, 2010

Firefox 3.6 was officially released yesterday by Mozilla; providing significant performance improvements and new features. You’ll need to download and install HttpWatch version 6.2.30 or later, if you want to use it with Firefox 3.6.