SEO PM Mike just forwarded the link to nice tool checking the upload time of any web site in different locations of the world. The results include a timestamp for the check, the location checked from, the result of the check, amount of data received in kilobytes (KBytes), the response time in seconds (Secs), and the transfer rate in kilobits per second (Kbps).

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Roman from SEO department passed me another cool link to the wayback internet machine. Here you can browse through 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. I played with it for a while and found some interesting old looks of today’s e-monsters. Did you know that Froogle existed in 1998?

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The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. We have a bunch of customers requesting complete redesign services and coming with the web sites developed several years ago with possibility to be viewed correctly only in Internet Explorer. It’s not longer a question if you should have your website cross-browser accommodating. Believe it or not but at the time of this post slightly more than 20% of Internet users use a browser other than IE. This information comes from W3Schools.com, which has been keeping tabs on browser usage since January 2002.

Web developers might say: “You right – we are going to use Mozilla and IE for testing purpose”. What about Mac users? There are quite a few emulators of Mac OS out there, and it’s real nightmare to install them. Better bookmart the SafariTest – just enter your URL in the box and click View. SafariTest will return a screenshot of your page as viewed with Safari.

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