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Torbit offers next generation web performance with measurement, analytics and optimization.
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Mateo
Investors 2
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| 500 Startups | 500.co |
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Jul 24, 2013 | Walmart Labs buys Torbit to make its sites faster on all devices | Walmart Labs wants to improve Walmart’s website, but instead of buying a product to watch for site-hiccups, it bought a company. Torbit officially joined the Walmart team today, though terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company notic... |
| Nov 15, 2012 | With Growth Surging, Torbit Moves Towards Free To Help Web Businesses Turn Speed Into Revenue | In today’s digital world, website performance and speedy load times are critical. This is now common knowledge. However, until recently, it’s been tough to quantify the extent to which speed and performance actually affect day-to-day operat... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund | I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P. – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund. K9 Ventures started investing in 2009 with our first fund, K9 Ventures, L.P., which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Torbit’s Insight Measures The Effect Of Site Speed On Your Bounce, Conversion & Revenue | Anyone who runs a website, especially those who those who do the majority of their business through a web portal, know how important speedy load times are to keeping their customers engaged, on site, and happy. Of course, maintaining speed ... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Torbit Insight – Real User Measurement of Web Performance | Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 era to help resolve these problems. The most well known and most successful one of course being Ak... |
| Nov 6, 2011 | TechStars for a day at Geekdom | The TechStars Cloud could serve as a catalyst to ignite San Antonio’s startup technology community. That’s because ten new startups will locate here for the 12-week program, which kicks off in January. Also, Nicole Glaros, TechStar managing... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Add Google’s Alternative to HTTP to Your Website with Strangeloop Site Optimizer | SPDY is a hypertext protocol developed by Google as an alternative/compliment to HTTP. It improves the performance of modern websites by adding a few features such as multiplexed requests, prioritized requests and compressed headers. You ca... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | How Fast Is Your Site? Measure It With Google's Page Speed Online | Editors note: The following guest post is written by Josh Fraser. Josh is the co-founder of a new startup called Torbit which automatically optimizes websites for speed. Yesterday Google announced Page Speed Online, which provides a quick a... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Automatically Speed Up Your Website With Torbit | Everybody knows that having a fast Website is important, especially now that Google officially factors a site’s load time into its search ranking score. It’s simple enough to run a site speed test with Yahoo’s YSlow plugin or Google’s Web A... |
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FAQ about Torbit
Who has invested in Torbit?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of Torbit, among them 500 Startups.
What has the press written about Torbit?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Torbit, among them “Walmart Labs buys Torbit to make its sites faster on all devices” (Jul 24, 2013) and “With Growth Surging, Torbit Moves Towards Free To Help Web Businesses Turn Speed Into Revenue” (Nov 15, 2012).
Is Torbit still active?
Torbit is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 24, 2013.