We benchmarked 11 major web development blogs and analyzed their website performance.

In mid-2015 we conducted a lot of performance improvements for our website and blog. And we continuously did our homework. Just last week we did a major website speed upgrade for our blog.

So, we thought it would be fun to benchmark our web development blog with some other major web development & design blogs. We put our heads together and conducted some research.

Here’s what we found.

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Running 3D graphics inside the browser with Three.JS. A first review by Usersnap.

Over the last few years, browsers got some super powers. They evolved from simple viewers for HTML & CSS to platforms executing our beloved web applications.

With developments, such as WebGL or tracking.js, developers can do incredible things inside browsers.

Recently we stumbled upon Three.js. So we decided to do a review on how browsers are moving to a 3D world by making use of new libraries.

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18 Development Conferences to Attend in 2016: Be There or Be Square!

With April 1st just around the corner, we already managed to get through the first three months of 2016. If you’re like me, you probably are looking for new things to learn and new people to meet.

Conferences are a good way to catch up with new trends, meet thought leaders, and think about ways to improve your daily work.

The following is by far a complete overview, but rather a somewhat personal compilation of interesting conferences in the next months (in chronological order).

Let us know if you have found this to be helpful and tell us about your experiences, if you go to one of these conferences.

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How to Kickstart your Marketing with Social Listening

As developers and designers we are directly or indirectly involved in the marketing side of our business.

Marketing is an essential part for us as digital workers.

So we invited our friends at Brand24 to give us and our audience some how-to examples on how we can boost our marketing efforts in order to gain more customers or build better relationships.

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Developing a SaaS product for a global audience #InsideSaaS

More and more SaaS companies are taking off the ground. Building and selling a product to a global audience has never been easier. With great tools and infrastructure around, even small teams can build a global product.

Today’s blog post covers the challenges of developing a global SaaS product and summarizes our lessons learned from going international.

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Thinking global as a local company? 7 tips for going international with your website #Inside SaaS

Interacting with a global audience has never been easier. Still startups and small teams primary struggle to compete for attention with the big players in digital business.

Knowing your customers is vital, when setting up your global website. Hence, customer driven design can be the key to success. In this blog post I am talking about my learnings from planning to take a website international.

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7 web design trends for 2025

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It’s the start of 2025 and web design companies are looking back trying to find out what worked last year and what’s going to be the trend for this year.

So go ahead and read on. We’ve collected some of the best web design trends you must know about in 2025.

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Essential WordPress Plugins For Developers & Designers (Part 2)

A while ago, we talked about unknown WordPress plugins that developers should use when setting up a new WordPress website. Aside from the ones I mentioned, there are, of course, way more great and essential WordPress plugins out there.

Because the first WordPress post received some great response, we thought about a follow-up post on the best WordPress development plugins for developers & designers.

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