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Thinking past Page Load Time In the past, the performance of a website was measured by checking how long it took for an event called ‘window.onload’ to trigger, this measurement was dubbed the “Page Load Time” (PLT) of a website. Five to ten years ago, this was a very good indicator, but websites have evolved […]
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As a website owner, you probably love the idea of thousands of people coming to your site every day. But what if most of those requests were automated, coming from bots and scrapers that wanted to harvest and collect your content and information for their own purposes? Clearly, not all website traffic is desirable. These […]
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Introduction: When it comes to multi device web design, you really can’t beat responsive. Websites built using responsive design techniques such as fluid grids, flexible images and media queries are adaptive, interactive and provide a rich user ?experience. But many of the elements that make responsive websites beautiful and adaptive to screens of all shapes […]
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It is amazing that, while performance is the result of every aspect of the system, performance as a discipline consists of multiple silos and different groups of performance-related specialists have very limited communication between themselves. You hardly find any book or community covering performance end-to-end. Performance-related responsibilities are usually spread across several groups and rarely […]
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Over the last five years we’ve seen a surge in web traffic. As you have surely read a hundred times before, handling the traffic in a timely manner is very important. Of the many tools you’ll need in your war-chest a caching reverse proxy is imperative to battle the ever increasing traffic. Caching reverse proxies […]
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Working in the performance industry you’re surrounded by many technical terms. Of course, we need to have many terms and phrases to be able to communicate about specifics. There’s no doubt that much of what we deal with on a daily basis can be very complex, so we need to be careful with how we […]
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This post is by?Eric Higgins,?a Software Engineer at?Optimizely. Would you believe me if I told you that you — the speed-and-scale-loving developers you all are — have willingly introduced user-blocking, perceivable latency into your precious applications? If you have any animated effects in your app, then this is very likely to be true! To prove […]
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We all want our pages to load faster. Though the big picture of web performance is quite complex, payload size and location are two factors that can be minimized with a little effort. Here, we’ll look at how delivering static assets from a cookie-free domain via a content delivery network (CDN) can help reduce your […]
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Here at MindTouch we’re focused on creating the ideal software help SaaS. Like any service, speed is a major factor in user satisfaction: How quickly are pages loading? Is every action, from searching to rating pages, happening smoothly? As background, the MindTouch help platform is built on several layers: Backend API: Our RESTful API handles […]
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It’s been no secret in the industry that reducing HTTP requests helps to speed up the web, and it becomes even more important when optimizing for?mobile. Every request that a mobile device makes is a relatively slow process for the device and the network it’s pulling from. Luckily jQuery Mobile?took all of this into consideration […]
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If you’re anything like me, you probably have a few apps on your phone that you barely use because they’re painfully slow. It doesn’t help that our attention span is getting ever more fragmented with per session use of apps hovering in the “few minutes” range. This literally translates to an expectation that apps need […]
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This guest post is by Sean O’Brien from Pagely?, the #1 rated managed WordPress hosting platform according to WPMU.org; Sean O’Brien is the director of marketing at Pagely? and a former search manager for WPP plc, the world’s largest advertising holding company by revenue. Are your plugins to blame? Plugins are a common cause of […]
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This post is by Dan Wall who is the founder of WhatsMyDNS.net. We all know that feeling, you’ve made changes to your DNS records and what you once had total control over, your precious network setup – has been sent out there for the unknown Internet to decide the fate of. You can never be […]
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It’s common knowledge that the faster a website loads, the happier its users will be. That happiness manifests itself as more time spent on our pages and more revenue, so keeping page load-times down is definitely in our best interest. Google and Bing also take keeping their users happy very seriously. For the search engine […]
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Editors note:?The code examples that the original author attached were replaced with images due to formatting issues. ?We?apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. The dreaded spinning mouse pointer and ?the progress bar moving at a snails pace, are ?frustrating for both website viewers and those responsible for maintaining a site. ?Many times a site […]
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Setting up a basic Rails application to sell things using Stripe is generally straight forward. Getting the best performance out of your application, and the best conversion rates, can be tricky. Specifically, by using the standard integration instructions your application can be slow which can cost conversions. In this post I’m going to go over […]
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To an engineer, a bad workflow is a problem to be solved with technology. That’s what was in my head a couple years ago after jotting down a bunch of performance numbers from apache bench and httperf runs in a google docs spreadsheet. The workflow of crunching performance numbers can be arduous and error prone […]
Read More »I would usually post this on the NetDNA blog but since it is?Speed Awareness Month?it just feels better here. =) Here are the latest files for you guys/gals to battle test:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS --> <link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0-rc2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript --> <script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0-rc2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <!-- Latest Glyphicons minified CSS --> <link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0-rc2/css/bootstrap-glyphicons.css" rel="stylesheet"> |
Enjoy!
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This guest post is by Austin Gunter from WP Engine, the premium managed WordPress hosting platform that specializes in delivering the fastest WordPress speeds possible. Austin Gunter is a writer and a blogger. Have you ever wondered just how fast your site actually needs to be to be in order to deliver the right level […]
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Could you beat Steve Souders in a foot race? To find out, the first thing you might do is watch 10-seconds from his talk The Illusion of Speed, at Velocity-Ignite 2013. Which 10-seconds? Start at the 7-second mark and watch until the 17-second mark. Reason? The running performance data that is the most useful is […]
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As you might well know, there are quite a few free JavaScript CDNs out there. The problem is, it can be difficult to understand how they perform relative to each other. This is something we managed to solve by developing CDNperf. In this post I’ll go through the brief history of the project to help […]
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WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. It’s the number one choice of everyone from solo bloggers to corporations. However, it is far from being the fastest available option. The benefits that WordPress’s dynamic page generation model bring to content management are undeniable, but running PHP code and database queries imposes […]
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We’re all well aware that page load times affect conversion rates. Sites lose a percentage of their conversions for every fraction of a second a page takes to load. 40% of visitors will abandon a shopping site if it takes more than three seconds to load, and for every second of delay conversion rates can […]
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You’ve probably heard the 80/20 Rule of web performance: typically, 80% of page load time is on the front-end, and only 20% on the back-end. While that’s generally true, there are some important things to watch out for. Caveats to the 80/20 Rule The 80/20 Rule is supported by data gathered mainly from the home […]
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In today’s smartphone enabled world, there is a constant drive to supply more information and data to our end users. Customers want advanced features, data and knowledge, no matter the device or network. ?In addition, they expect all of this content to appear quickly.? How do you as a developer ensure that your content arrives, […]
Read More »tl;dr Last year rocked, we are looking for contributors (sign up here), Official Hashtag:?#SAM2013 Last year’s Speed Awareness Month (SAM) was a big success with dozens of authors and sponsors making contributions to improve the web for everyone. In total, 70 articles were published (full of tips and information on how to optimize your website), […]
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