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Chris is a happily married father of two young girls. Besides his family and day job at Yottaa in the area of product management (it is really more like a day job + evening job), he enjoys playing guitar, reading, playing soccer, and seeing live music. Chris has a passion for web technology and is a former developer and web architect. His favorite quote is "Life is to be enjoyed."
Yottaa Launches Website Performance APIs For All!
Posted on January 25th, 2012 by

TweetToday is an exciting day at Yottaa. We’re announcing the launch of three – yep, three! – new APIs. These APIs provide developers and partners with access to our massive amounts of web performance data, and support integration of Yottaa … Continue reading

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Spreading the Good Word (Speed)
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by

TweetI just read Google’s latest issue of “Think Quarterly”. In the lead article “The Google Gospel of Speed“, Urs Hoelzle (Google’s SVP of Infrastructure) gives an overview of the many ways Google is working to make the web faster. A … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Site Speed: It’s About Time
Posted on May 11th, 2011 by

TweetWell, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… so consider us flattered. A couple days ago, Google Analytics finally got around to incorporating web performance measurements in Google Analytics with their new “Site Speed” feature. Almost seven months … Continue reading

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Manual Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil
Posted on April 21st, 2011 by

Tweet“Premature optimization is the root of all evil. ” – Donald Knuth, renowned computer scientist “Manual optimization is premature optimization. ” – Chris Weekly, web performance guy Ergo, manual optimization is…

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W3C Navigation Timing API: Better Page Load Time Measurements in Chrome and IE
Posted on March 18th, 2011 by

TweetUPDATE 20110929: Finally! On Tuesday — six months after I wrote this post about Chrome and IE9 support — Firefox 7.0 was released, with support for the W3C Nav Timing API: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/7.0/releasenotes/. Now the big three desktop browsers all allow … Continue reading

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