Healthcare.gov Performance Review, Mexico Tops in Broadband Growth, Optimize Start Render Time - Optimization Week of October 5, 2013
Optimization Week Issue #129, October 5, 2013
In this issue we've got a few new items for you. First up learn how
the Affordable Health Care Act's website healthcare.gov is struggling
with website performance. We analyze the site for performance and
offer some recommendations. Next learn how to optimize the start
render time of your web pages. Finally, in our latest broadband
survey see how Mexico tops the world in broadband growth.
- Healthcare.gov Performance Review
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We diagnose the website performance issues of the healthcare.gov
site, and offer some solutions to improve the patient's health. A
brief analysis shows a number of issues that could be addressed
to improve the user experience.
- Mexico Tops in Broadband Growth
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Mexico was tops in broadband penetration growth in a recent survey.
Switzerland topped all countries in broadband penetration with
43.4% penetration per 100 inhabitants. Meanwhile the US remained
stuck in 15th place in broadband penetration, relying mainly on
cable subscribers while the top countries had 57.3% DSL subscribers.
- Optimize Start Render Time
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HCI guidelines say load useful content within 1-2 seconds, do your
pages measure up? Learn how to optimize the start render time of
your web pages to speed up useful content display.
