by Dan Ackerson on November 16, 2008
photo credit: b a r t
In the current economic downturn, everyone’s keeping an extra close eye on the bottom line and looking for ways to save money. Let’s compare the bytes of data on your network to water droplets and your website to a leaky faucet. You know you should take an afternoon and fix the damn [...]
by Dan Ackerson on November 9, 2008
photo credit: ansik
Hopefully, you have a better idea about how (un)performant and (un)optimized your website is after going through some of the tools I introduced you to last week. You’ve made the first step in getting to know more about how your site is really served to your users. Now, I’ll start walking you [...]
by Dan Ackerson on November 2, 2008
Since Steve Souders’s published “High Performance Websites” back in September 2007, a lot of people finally sat up and took notice of front-end web performance optimization techniques. Over a year later, you’d hope that most folks had figured out the basics like compressing content, using expires headers and reducing requests. Unfortunately, it seems that multi-core [...]
by Matthias Marschall on June 26, 2008
Imagine yourself building a new web application from the ground up. Let’s say - an online bookshelf where you want to keep track of all the books you own. Along with the first lines of code you setup your basic database schema (You really need a database, right?) and you even come up with some [...]