How can I make my blog load faster?

The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users: <br /><h4>Posts</h4>Your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the <strong>Settings | Formatting</strong> tab. You can then select the number of posts you want to display on the main page. We recommend displaying 10 or fewer posts on the main page . <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVp9I6PIS3gazD1K8DxYDJJZc5r7ZnvOTxxbyl__9UBh5E4ggR2wrcS59ywPbqCwvbLpfRHVyoV2qJSC-OZinrRhTIXE7b15TOwSRFdA_ial-TmSgceKHUQTmLGmE8bJaGzIAV_FJxtA/s1600/Picture+1.png" /> <br /><h4>Third Party JavaScript and Links</h4>For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScipt and links. However, if you need to use third party JavaScipt and links, your blog will load much faster if you put all JavaScript at the bottom of your blog. If you have third party JavaScript and links in your sidebar, put them in at the bottom of the sidebar.

How can I make my blog load faster?

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New Twitter overhaul adds photos and video

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjWp-5AXw68dpKI3JAVYDhrkrkvjVQcSGm728OlV6ORNwkiSifrjpUMILZtEKW3XTefpo6RH78Z1bYfgMsZ16u6Lj3vlvwnw_i2S5tIZ7TsQ04fpLn55gdhpWf2CY1bPtuOQmHHpZyY4E/s1600/twiiter_screengrab.top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjWp-5AXw68dpKI3JAVYDhrkrkvjVQcSGm728OlV6ORNwkiSifrjpUMILZtEKW3XTefpo6RH78Z1bYfgMsZ16u6Lj3vlvwnw_i2S5tIZ7TsQ04fpLn55gdhpWf2CY1bPtuOQmHHpZyY4E/s200/twiiter_screengrab.top.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Twitter's 145 million users will soon be able to embed photos and video clips into their 140-character-long tweets, the company announced on Tuesday as it unveiled one of its first major revamps.<br />The fast-growing microblogging service said the new features are part of a major overhaul focused on making Twitter more user-friendly.<br />"It's faster, it's easier and it's a richer experience," Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and CEO, said at the company's San Francisco headquarters. "Simple things that are cryptic on Twitter today become a lot more clear."<br />The updated Twitter.com features an expanded sidebar that shows related content when you click on a specific Tweet, eliminating the need to toggle back and forth between different Web pages. The company partnered with 16 media providers, included Yahoo's Flickr and Google's YouTube, to let users embed pictures and playable videos directly on Twitter.com. That cuts a step out of the previous navigation path, which required clicking on a link to view images or clips.<br />The new Twitter.com also includes the ability to scroll down the page without having to press a "more" button.<br />While an increasing number of people are accessing Twitter on their iPhones and other mobile devices, only 16% of tweeters start out using the service on their cell phones, company executives said at Tuesday's event. That heightened their focus on making the native Twitter.com experience a smooth one.<br />A select group of users -- including members of the media who attended the launch event in San Francisco -- were given access to the new Twitter.com immediately. A larger rollout will take place more gradually; Twitter executives wouldn't say when it will be completed.<br />The move is part of Twitter's ongoing shift from promising startup to entrenched Web giant. While the four-year-old company has insisted on what it calls a "slow and thoughtful approach to monetization," it's been criticized for not turning a profit -- or even proving that it has a viable business model. Earlier this year, Twitter launched "Promoted Tweets," a money-making plan featuring 140-character ads purchased by companies like Starbucks and Red Bull.<br />By Michal Lev-Ram

New Twitter overhaul adds photos and video

Twitter's 145 million users will soon be able to embed photos and video clips into their 140-character-long tweets, the company announc...

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Microsoft delivers Google Chrome IE9 beta

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1OL5XOOKos_JS103wD7cypYWjmm7SuZ_Ux6Jx7TY5_rWYLKwJY0rSWXIZKqfASWXbdeEM72ABjq4CZkXAUEXZczpDIQctANDP6l0NtC9EeSyfKlaGoqAUQnp7Pjur1ojqxs00PmKVY4/s1600/ie9_beta_jumplists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1OL5XOOKos_JS103wD7cypYWjmm7SuZ_Ux6Jx7TY5_rWYLKwJY0rSWXIZKqfASWXbdeEM72ABjq4CZkXAUEXZczpDIQctANDP6l0NtC9EeSyfKlaGoqAUQnp7Pjur1ojqxs00PmKVY4/s200/ie9_beta_jumplists.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><strong class="trailer">First look</strong> Microsoft is offering Internet Explorer 9 <a href="http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/" target="_blank">beta</a> for download. Although this follows four earlier platform previews, this is the first time the new IE user interface has been shown to the public.<br />Like Google Chrome, IE9 combines the address and search boxes into a single "OneBox". It also integrates with the Windows 7 taskbar, enabling website shortcuts to be pinned in the same way as applications, and supporting jumplists and custom preview windows.<br />The new features are based partly on research showing that users make little use of browser features. "Fewer than one third have opened Favourites, fewer than a quarter have pressed the home button," says product manager Ian Moulster. "Windows features are used more. Sixty two per cent have pinned an app to the taskbar, 90 per cent have launched an application from the taskbar."<br />IE9 therefore presents a minimal user interface in the browser chrome, but adds integration with Windows, especially Windows 7. IE9 also runs on Windows Vista, but not on Windows XP. Users can drag tabs to the taskbar to pin them, and web sites can author jumplist pop-up menus and custom preview windows. Blurring the boundaries between launching an application and launching a website is deliberate, bringing web applications a little closer to desktop applications.<br />Less browser chrome, a single box for URLs and search, shortcuts that open web applications: three ideas that seem to echo those from Google's competing browser. Does IE9 offer anything new?<br />The parallels are unmistakeable, but features like jumplists are Windows-specific, and there are significant differences in implementation. For example, the IE9 search bar does not send every letter typed to a search engine by default, and IE9 windows opened from the taskbar still have access to new tabs, whereas in Chrome they are disabled.<br />Another new feature in IE9 is a download manager. This is long overdue. IE9's download manager includes virus checking, as well as a complex screening algorithm that is meant to warn users of unsafe downloads.<br />Just like in Windows itself, many performance issues in IE are caused by add-ons, especially when multiple add-ons or toolbars are installed. A new feature measures how long add-ons take to initialise and warns the user if it seems excessive - a clever way of shifting the blame and helping users to tune their browsers.<br />The new IE9 user interface has some welcome though not ground-breaking features, but what counts for more is the hardware acceleration and fast JavaScript engine already seen in the platform preview. Clearly Microsoft is serious about getting back into the browser race.<br />By Tim Anderson

Microsoft delivers Google Chrome IE9 beta

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Internet Explorer 9 beta lives

<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJcLspZOc15IPF-nF2iOUAC1oXJmvyd05Q1uqu53iZl3cFnVyeNZMRwsQeAStOC-yPB3fgGQp1TmpIc0HouoR1nsDxLe7cvyOvRdl9PtBWSpwdSEDoINL5C9tZmXa6ZLMzwtZRhgio2U/s1600/internet-software-download-internet-explorer-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJcLspZOc15IPF-nF2iOUAC1oXJmvyd05Q1uqu53iZl3cFnVyeNZMRwsQeAStOC-yPB3fgGQp1TmpIc0HouoR1nsDxLe7cvyOvRdl9PtBWSpwdSEDoINL5C9tZmXa6ZLMzwtZRhgio2U/s200/internet-software-download-internet-explorer-9.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><strong>FOR INSECURITY PATCH FANS</strong> your time has come with the release of Microsoft's IE9 beta with its updated user interface that will be seen in the full blown IE9.<br />All the hackers out there can download IE9, start hacking away at it from tonight and do their best to ruin its alleged greater performance, improved reliability and enhanced security. IE9 takes advantage of hardware acceleration to boost web performance, including making use of multi-core processors and using a PC's GPU to accelerate graphics rendering.<br />The browser's new features include pinned sites, which lets users pin a website directly to the taskbar, hang protection to further isolate tabs from each other, and the notion of trusted downloads to combat malware.<br />Under Windows 7, a pinned site can display a jump list of options for that site to allow users to create a new message in a webmail site, for example. IE9 also takes on the colour scheme of the pinned site to become even less conspicuous.<br />Hang protection builds on the crash protection added in IE8, and stops open tabs from being affected if a script inside another tab is "running away", Microsoft said.<br />The UI is very minimalist, so it is as unobtrusive as possible, according to Microsoft, fitting the address bar, search box and buttons all onto a single line at the top of the browser window. This minimalist approach, along with HTML5 and CSS3 support, is intended to let web developers build websites that look and feel much more like Windows applications than websites, Microsoft said. Of course Microsoft really likes that idea.<br />"We found that users tend to interact with the web site they are browsing, not browser features. They want the browser to be supportive, but not to get in the way," said Ian Moulster, Windows team product manager at Microsoft.<br />Unlike the earlier platform preview releases, this version of IE9 will replace IE8 on your computer, Microsoft warned, although it can be uninstalled if required. IE9 also does not support Windows XP.<br /><br />By Rob Coppinger

Internet Explorer 9 beta lives

FOR INSECURITY PATCH FANS your time has come with the release of Microsoft's IE9 beta with its updated user interface that will be se...

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