The Boxxet Blog

Page Speed is Meaningful. Yeah, We All Know That.

This is an installment of the ongoing “Metrics Series.”

A bunch of weeks ago, we made some infrastructure changes that really sped up our site.  Our pages were pretty slow before that.  The immediate change was that the percentage of “quality visits” (a metric we use to look at the number of people who find value on Boxxet) went up 10%. 

But a more qualitative metric of our slow page speed can be seen as a loss of a ”star” in a review.  The week we made the page speed improvement, a review of Boxxet on LAPTOP Magazine came out.  It was a very positive review, but one of the criticisms was “the service is in its infancy, so it is not up to speed yet-literally. Performance was sluggish last time we visited…“  Yeah, they were right. 

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May 30th, 2007 You Mon Tsang

WebWare 100 Finalist

w00t!  Looks like Boxxet is a finalist for the WebWare 100.  We are psyched to be in good company.

I’ve been a big fan of Rafe Needleman for a long time and his work as Editor of WebWare has made that site an important source for web apps news. 

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May 23rd, 2007 You Mon Tsang

Boxxet Gets A Web 2.0 Award !

It is always terrific to be recognized for your work, so when SEOMOZ announced their Web 2.0 Awards, it put a little bounce in our step.

Against tough competition, we took second (I especially like the five stars for usability). While you’re at the site, go ahead and check out SEOMOZ if you are at all interested in search engines and SEO (it is a daily read for me).

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May 10th, 2007 youmon