| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Web Performance Optimization |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Vancouver BC |
| Products | Site Optimizer |
| Website | www.strangeloopnetworks.com |
Strangeloop Networks Inc is a company that develops front-end website optimization technology. The company's flagship product is the Strangeloop Site Optimizer, technology that automatically streamlines web page HTML code and resources, allowing pages to render faster at the user's browser level. Site Optimizer is available as a network appliance, a virtual appliance, or a service.
Strangeloop Networks was founded in 2006 by twin brothers Jonathan Bixby and Joshua Bixby, with Richard Campbell, Kent Alstad, and Lee Purvis. The company's first product offering was the Strangeloop AS1000, a delivery-focused accelerator for ASP.NET. Strangeloop Networks is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The Strangeloop Site Optimizer falls under an umbrella of emerging tools geared toward the relatively new field of Web Performance Optimization (WPO), which has been championed in recent years by Google "performance guru" Steve Souders.
Website performance refers to the speed and availability of individual websites. In the past, site owners responded to performance problems in one or more of three ways:
Recent research by Google shows that, for many popular sites, the solutions outlined above address 10% of performance issues. Problems at the user's browser level, also known as the front end, account for more than 90% of a user's wait time. Content delivery networks help to address part of this problem by reducing network latency. Additional performance gains can be achieved through front-end optimization techniques that streamline the web page HTML code and resources.