performance

So, if we're not going to pay our people by the hour, what are the alternatives?

The key to this is finding ways to identify why you're employing somebody, and then adopting performance measures that reflect what you're expecting them to add to the business.

Using my role with ITVidya as an example:

I'm there, fundamentally, to have the business be successful. This means a number of things:

* Driving membership growth;
* Driving premium membership growth;
* Driving content creation;
* Increasing the "stickiness" of the site;
* Identifying and implementing partnerships that will achieve the above;

Web sites are no different. Google proved with its super fast pages (part real, part perception) that users will perform many more searches if they know they don't have to wait long. If each query on Google would take 20 seconds to respond, you are more likely spending more time thinking about what search terms you'll use. But since it takes just 3 seconds, you just keep adding and removing search terms.

Tips for Web Developers on how to improve their page speed. These tips effect latency, bandwidth, rendering and/or perception of when a page is ready. They are in no particular order.

Tip #1: Strip spaces, tabs, CR/LF from the HTML