Agile manifesto mentions technical excellence as a core of the methodology. The performance and security of your website are crucial. But what does it take to excel at web development? How does it affect your business, and most importantly, the end user? Our developers talk about various topics related to technical excellence in web development – read their articles below.
Sustainable websites rely on an excellent technical setup. This includes green hosting, optimised images, and future-proof code. But it doesn’t end there. Sustainability on the Internet is much more than just tech, and here’s why.
Images make websites better, but it comes at a cost. Are you uploading them without a second thought? It’s likely to slow down your website. The impact depends on factors like the resolution, quality, and even the file type. Find out how to hit the sweet spot.
Businesses that rely on the website to generate revenue might need to work with web designers. This might be on a freelance basis, with an agency, or even in-house. But when do you actually decide that you should stop using page builders?
Technical debt is a metaphor for the shortcuts that we take in software development. In the same way that financial debt can be useful when it helps you to achieve your goals quicker, technical debt can make sense when it enables you to get something working quickly. These shortcuts come at the cost of increased development effort in future releases—effort that may be impossible to predict, but which can often be significant.
In agile, velocity is a concept which refers to the amount of work that has been done during an iteration. It’s a measurement that tracks information about work completed, work started, and work remaining. Velocity is considered to be one of the most important metrics in agile. Not only does it allow you to track progress, but it also helps deliver the most value.
Websites have evolved drastically in just a few decades. They went from being a novelty to something that “every business needs”. But there’s one thing that didn’t keep up with that rapid evolution – the process of designing and developing websites. Most agencies build websites the same way they built them 20+ years ago.
Content is the key to ranking on search engines, but an overhaul of your copy is not always the answer to your SEO problems. Today we’ll show you why SEO isn’t what you think it is. You’ll learn about the overlooked aspects of website optimisation that influence how Google rates – and ranks – your website.
Even a perfectly optimised website is only as good as its hosting. However, businesses tend to underestimate the importance of choosing the right website host. That’s because the differences between providers are not easy to understand. Everyone advertises as the best, the fastest, and quite often the cheapest. Here’s what we’ve learned about website hosts when choosing a best-in-class partner for our websites.
Discover the third-party scripts that could be slowing down your website. Thanks to an open-source “Third Party Web” project by Patrick Hulce, a former Google Employee, we know how different scripts affect performance. The report covers popular services in a number of categories, from social features, through ads and analytics, all the way to marketing solutions.
Includes tools to maximise your website potential.
