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Posted by ryan | Posted on 13:30

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:01 AM PDT

The speed of a website is a very important factor for providing a better browsing experience to visitors (which directly effects the success of a website).

Specially, after Google announced that "speed" became one of the elements in its search ranking, it is clear that web designers/developers should be focusing more on this.

GTmetrix is a free and online website speed analyzer which uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow as the analyzing engines and display their results + recommendations online.

It enables you to compare multiple URLs and, once signed up, you can:

view the past tests ran to compare with the current results
schedule daily/weekly/monthly automated checks
save reports
set any report to be public or private

GTmetrix also has a bookmarklet which you can run a test for any website with a click.

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100 Beautiful Vector Pictograms: Pictoico

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:57 PM PDT

Pictoico is a visual initiative which aims to define a uniform, globally accepted, contemporary yet modern, unique and highly recognizable symbol style.

It is currently sharing 100 beautiful pictograms including actions, commerce, multimedia and more. And, releasing new ones for completing the set to 1000 items is mentioned to be the main plan.

The set comes in 2 vector formats: .SVG and .AI so they can be customized in anyway you prefer.

P.S. They are only free to be used in non-commercial projects.