Wolfsburg youngster Junior Malanda has died in a car accident, say reports in Germany.

According to BILD, the defensive midfielder was travelling in the back seat of an SUV when it was involved in a high-speed collision near Porta Westfalica in north-central Germany.

The car reportedly cleared a guardrail on the side of the road and crashed into a tree. The 20-year-old is believed to have died immediately.

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Young talent: Malanda had broken into the Wolfsburg first team

Malanda - full name Bernard Malanda-Adje - was a promising young midfielder who had represented Belgium through numerous age groups. He appeared in ten Bundesliga games for Wolfsburg this term. His past clubs include Zuite-Waregem and Lille.

According to BILD, he was scheduled to catch a flight to a training camp later on Saturday evening. Wolfsburg were heading to South Africa, with their next Bundesliga match not until 30 January.

Shocking news has broken in Germany on Saturday night: Wolfsburg’s 20-year-old midfielder Junior Malanda has died in a car accident.

The sad news has been broken by Bild, who have reported that Malanda was in the back seat of an SUV which police say was traveling at an excessive speed.

Crash happened at 15:35 German time.

Malanda, a Belgium U21 international, was meant to fly to South Africa tonight for Wolfsburg’s training camp.

During the accident, the car reportedly skidded during stormy conditions, flew over the guardrail and crashed into a tree. The vehicle landed on it’s roof.

Malanda is reported to have catapulted forward after the car hit a tree. He died instantly at the scene. 

There were two other passengers in the car who were seriously injured and were hospitalised.

Junior Malanda came to prominence at the start of the Bundesliga season when the youngster missed sitters against Bayern Munch and then Frankfurt.

Watch those clips below.

It is time to cover another niche on our Top 25 series. Celebrity blogs are among the most popular on the Internet. People just love gossip. As a result, they tend to receive a lot of traffic, and to be very profitable.

I would guess that the lower blogs on our list earn at least $5,000 monthly, while the top ones should be over the $50,000 monthly figure.

Keep in mind that the Top 25 takes into consideration only objective factors. The maximum score is 40, and the details about our algorithm can be found below the list.

#1	Perez Hilton	7	10	10	10	37
#2	TMZ	8	10	8	10	36
#3	ValleyWag	7	8	10	10	35
#4	The Superficial	7	9	9	9	34
#5	Defamer	7	7	9	8	31
#6	Gawker	7	9	5	10	31
#7	WWTDD	6	9	8	7	30
#8	Egotastic	6	10	7	7	30
#9	Jezebel	7	7	7	9	30
#10	Go Fug Yourself	7	7	10	6	30
#11	Pink is the new blog	7	6	9	7	29
#12	Celebrity Babies	4	7	10	8	29
#13	PopSugar	7	8	5	8	28
#14	Dlisted	6	9	4	9	28
#15	I am Not Obsessed	6	7	4	7	24
#16	Celebitchy	5	8	5	7	23
#27	CityRag	6	7	4	5	22
#18	Jossip	4	5	7	6	22
#19	PopCrunch	4	8	2	7	21
#20	HollyScoop	6	6	2	7	21
#21	Dotspotter	7	7	1	5	20
#22	Celebrity Gossip	5	7	1	7	20
#23	Hollywood Rag	6	6	1	6	19
#24	The Bosh	6	6	3	4	19
#25	Splash News	6	5	1	6	18

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.
Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).
Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability; most Internet users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds. Below you will find the summary of the “Speed Up Your Site” series. Those are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast. You can click on each point to read the article with comments from the readers.

1. Optimize Images: always use the “Save for the web” feature included on image editing software. Images represent the heavier load on virtually any website so make sure you are optimizing them. Alternatively you can also turn to an online image optimizer.
2. Image Formats: apart from optimizing images it is important that you choose the right format. JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-color images. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors.
3. Optimize Your CSS: most websites are designed with CSS nowadays. Make sure to aggregate and clean your CSS. CleanCSS is an online tool that will merge similar selectors, remove useless properties and remove the whitespace from your code.
4. Use a Slash on Your Links: when a user opens a link on the form “http://www.domain.com/about” the server will need to figure what kind of file or page is contained on that address. If you include a slash (/) at the end of the link the server will already know that this is a directory page, reducing the load time of the site.
5. Use the Height and Width Tags: many people forget to add the Height and Width tags on image codes. Those tags will make sure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. The result is that it will reserve a spot for the images while loading the rest of the page, speeding up the whole process.
6. Reduce the HTTP Requests: when opening a web page every object (images, scripts and the line) will require a round trip to the server. This latency can add several seconds to the load time of your site. Make sure to reduce the number of objects and to combine CSS files and scripts together.