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Issue #98 features Website Optimization Secrets Book News Blog, US Broadband Penetration Breaks 90% among Active Internet Users, and the Ann Arbor News interviews author Andrew B. King, August 7, 2008.

Issue #97 features Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine, & Conversion Rate Secrets at Amazon.com, Conversion Rate Optimization Sample Chapter 5 (PDF), SEO Case Study: PhillyDentistry.com Chapter 2, and Book Release Prizes, July 16, 2008.

Issue #96 features Website Optimization Secrets Book Companion Site announcement, US Needs Broadband Czar says FCC, a Meryl.net birthday bash, and a best-selling book title study. July 9, 2008.

Issue #95 features Website Optimization Secrets Book announcement, Average Web Page Trends, and The Slashdot Effect, May 1, 2008

Issue #94 features Survey: 12% 'borrow' free Wi-Fi and Survey: Europe to Pass US in Wi-Fi Use, April 22, 2008.

Issue #93 features Inline Images with Data URLs, The Cost of Banner Advertising on Web Performance, US Broadband Penetration to Break 90% by mid-Summer Among Active Internet Users, Feb. 28, 2008.

Issue #92 features AOL Pagetest Web Performance Tool Released as Open Source, and iTunes Player Hits a High Note, Passes RealPlayer, Jan. 22, 2008.

Issue #91 features Optimize Parallel Downloads and a review of The Whole Shooting Match Digital Film Restoration, Jan. 4, 2008.

Issue #90 features Broadband Achieves Majority Fastest, SEM Trends: The Shift to SEO, Delta Encoding to Compress RSS Newsfeeds, and How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web, Dec. 18, 2007.

Issue #89 features a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, a Web Analytics Book, and Japanese Broadband World's Fastest, Cheapest

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Optimization Week Issue #98, August 7, 2008

Website Optimization Secrets Book News Blog

We've launched a blog for our new book. In it you'll find the latest news, reviews, interviews, and releases about the book.

US Broadband Penetration Breaks 90% among Active Internet Users - July 2008 Bandwidth Report

For the first time, US broadband penetration broke ninety percent among active Internet users in June 2008.

Making a good first impression really counts on Web sites

The Ann Arbor News interviewed author Andrew B. King for their July 20, 2008 issue.

Optimization Week Issue #97, July 16, 2008

Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine, & Conversion Rate Secrets at Amazon.com

Our new book is now available at Amazon.com. Eighteen months in the making, this new book shows you how to optimize your website for higher visibility and performance.

Conversion Rate Optimization Sample Chapter 5 (PDF)

Reveals the top 10 factors that you can use to maximize the conversion rate of your site. You'll learn how to use persuasive copywriting and credibility-based design to turn your website into a more efficient sales tool.

SEO Case Study: PhillyDentistry.com Chapter 2 (PDF)

This chapter demonstrates the benefits of natural SEO and best-practice WSO techniques. You'll learn how conversion rate optimization, credibility-based design, natural SEO, and a dash of PPC were used to increase the number of new clients for a business by a factor of 47.

Book Release Prizes

For a limited time, we're giving away one book a week to current and new subscribers to our Optimization Week newsletter. As a reward to all of you loyal readers we're making everyone who is currently subscribed, as well as any new subscribers a chance to win. Every week, we'll randomly pick one lucky winner and send them a signed copy of my new book, Website Optimization. Help spread the word and tell your friends.

Optimization Week Issue #96, July 9, 2008

Website Optimization Secrets Companion Site

Announcing our new book companion site for Website Optimization Secrets. The companion site now features book chapter summaries, full-color figures, code listings and working samples, examples, worksheets, and movies.

US Needs Broadband Czar Says FCC

In order to compete worldwide, the US needs a "broadband czar" to coordinate how government agencies promote broadband. The average broadband speed in the US is more than ten times slower than Japan at four times the cost. June 30, 2008.

Meryl.net 8th anniversary birthday bash

Congratulations go out to Meryl Evans on the eighth anniversary of her blog. As part of the celebration Meryl has kindly agreed to give away free copies of my new book.

Computer Model Names Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder as "The Perfect Title" for a Best-Seller

What characteristics do best-selling book titles have? To find out, Lulu.com conducted a study of every novel to have topped the hardcover fiction New York Times bestseller list from 1955 to 2004, and compared them with the titles of less successful novels by the same authors.

Optimization Week Issue #95, May 1, 2008

Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine, & Conversion Rate Secrets

Announcing our new book, Website Optimization Secrets, the definitive guide to optimizing web sites. With this book you'll learn best practice search engine marketing, conversion rate optimization, and web performance tuning techniques to fully optimize your website.

Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003

Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, dial-up users have been left behind.

The Slashdot Effect for Average Web Page Story

We were fortunate enough to be Slashdotted this week for our Average Web Page story. What is it like to be Slashdotted one reader wrote?

Optimization Week Issue #94, April 22, 2008

Survey: 12% 'borrow' free Wi-Fi

Some 12 percent of consumers 'borrow' free wireless connections, according to a new survey.

Survey: Europe to Pass US in Wi-Fi Use

Europe will soon pass the US in wireless usage at current growth rates, according to a recent survey.

Optimization Week Issue #93, Feb. 28, 2008

Inline Images with Data URLs

Learn how to embed images into your web pages with data URLs.

The Cost of Banner Advertising on Web Performance

The cost of banner ads for the average website is about one-sixth more objects and one-third more latency.

US Broadband Penetration to Break 90% by Mid-2008 Among Active Internet Users

Broadband penetration among active Internet users should break 90% by mid-2008 in the U.S, according to projections by Website Optimization.

WebPagetest.org

AOL's Pagetest, a newly open source web performance testing tool that we mentioned last issue, has now been webified.

Optimization Week Issue #92, Jan. 22, 2008

AOL Pagetest Web Performance Tool Released as Open Source

AOL has released an open source web performance tool called Pagetest. Pagetest is an Internet Explorer plug-in that measures and analyzes the performance of web pages. It features waterfall timing graphs, optimization checklists, and more details than competing software.

iTunes Player Hits a High Note, Passes RealPlayer

Apple's iTunes player passed RealPlayer in 2007 to become the second most popular streaming media player on the Internet. Growing at an annual rate of 26.8% iTunes hit a high note while the rest of the band was flat.

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