Terabyte Blog

One of the latest “must haves” for website optimisation is inline html for critical css, i.e. content above the fold, or what the user sees first. But is it entirely necessary for everyone?

We all know about the mobile revolution: mobile devices have now overtaken desktop – that news is very last year*. The players at the top of their game are those who have studied their digital offering closely, from a mobile users’ perspective, and optimised things accordingly, making it easy and pleasurable for their audience to reach their goals, no matter what they’re viewing the offering on.

The business of providing unique content to each user based on their interests, personalisation can effectively provide users with their very own website, drawing them towards services or products they’re most likely to engage with and helping turn down the “white noise”.

On 22 February 2017, Google sent an email, addressed to “Legal Department”, that looked a lot like spam. The email was to inform all Google Site Search customers that Google have decided to “wind[...] down sales and renewals of Google Site Search (GSS)”, and that starting April 1st, 2017, new purchases and renewals of GSS will not be available.

Every year since 2006, the technology industry have gathered in Wellington for two days of talks from experts in all things web related. From usability and accessibility to design and development, people share stories, look at things from other perspectives, keep informed of developments in the industry - and eat extremely good ice cream.