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Stats based on data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month and more than 3 million websites

StatCounter Global Stats - Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Market Share Tracks the Market Share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including Mobile from over 15 billion monthly page views.

Product page design: combining the best of eCommerce interaction design with the styling and engagement of a fashion magazine

An alternative approach to product page design .net magazine recently asked me to design the perfect eCommerce product page as a part of their ‘build-off’ feature. This is an excerpt from that feature.

Practical guidelines for web form usability:

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability - Smashing UX Design In this article, we’ll provide practical guidelines that you can easily follow. These guidelines have been crafted from usability testing, field testing, website tracking, eye tracking, Web analytics and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users.

Sprites: combining images into a single image can dramatically reduce the number of HTTP requests that your webpages make, which improves front-end performance. Here's an useful tool:

Sprite Cow - Generate CSS for sprite sheets Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.