The art of tuning a website to deliver it's content quickly and efficiently to the user over a potentially low bandwidth connection.
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How do you load test your application?
What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.
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How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring “Site Performance”?
I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and ...
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Is there a maximum size that web pages should be kept under?
Posted this on SO before Ben Voigt was nice enough to direct me here. Anywho, here is my question:
When I say size I'm talking about bytes not pixels.
I'm curious if there is any consensus on what ...
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If a page takes too long to load, after how long will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere?
If a page takes too long to load, after how long – generally – will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere? What studies have been done that measured page load time and user ...
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Common optimizations to reduce HTML or XHTML page size?
What are some common optimizations performed to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? Some that come to mind are:
removing comments,
removing extraneous whitespace,
moving repetitive inline styles to a ...
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What are the best ways to measure end user web site performance?
I know of a couple tools to measure end user web site performance and I'm wondering what else is out there. The two major ones I know of are yslow and Google's page speed.
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Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph
Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, in the text they say my site is faster than 63% of sites, but when I look at ...
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What percent of visitors should click on the next page before you enable prefetching?
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome support prefetching via an HTML tag:
<!-- in chrome -->
<link rel="prerender" href="http://example.org/index.html">
I suppose it is always worthwhile ...
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GZipped Images - Is It Worth?
Most image formats are already compressed. But in fact, if I take an image and compress it [gzipping it], and then I compare the compressed one to the uncompressed one, there is a difference in size, ...
