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Javascript scripts block in Firefox
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Scripts loaded using document .write block other downloads in Firefox.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, document .write was invented. That problem was made a bzillion times… read more
Getting Started with Memcached Distributed Memory Caching — Developer.com
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Wikipedia describes Memcached as a general-purpose distributed memory caching system, but what exactly does the term Memcached mean? Cache is memory used to store the… read more
Non-blocking Google Adsense ads: improve page speed
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he Adsense code snippet is not optimized for performance. On a page with a single ad, the code delays page rendering by 0.3 to 0.5… read more
Using CouchDb as filesystem with PHP
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CouchDb has a great feature. We can store files as attachments into our documents. If we add this feature to its multi-master replica system, we… read more
How to identify IE Add-Ons such as Skype that impact Web Site Performance Performance
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Add-Ons like Skype have to iterate through the DOM whenever a page is loaded or modified. The time it takes to iterate the DOM depends… read more
Performance Troubleshooting with Domain Categories
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Many Web pages are comprised of content from a variety of sources. The base page (i.e. the HTML of the main page) may draw in… read more
WINCACHE 1.0.1 released for both PHP 5.2 as well as PHP 5.3
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I recently asked user of WINCACHE to give feedback on soon-to-be-released bits of WINCACHE 1.0.1. We got mails from lot of people who came forward… read more
One-click Minifier Gadget (OMG) - initial checkin
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So I've been thinking and talking to folks about this idea of having one-stop shop for all your minification needs. Minification of JS and CSS… read more
Top 10 Client-Side Performance Problems in Web 2.0
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Inspired by the Top 10 Performance Problems post which focuses on Server-Side performance problems taken from companies such as Zappos, Thomson, Monster and Novell I… read more
Performance Matters: Passive vs Active performance monitoring
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One of the things that has always bothered me about actively monitoring a site's performance (hitting it on a regular interval from an automated browser)… read more
Performance Tip for HTTP Downloads
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HTTPWatch has an interesting article today on their blog entitled “Four Tips for Setting up HTTP File Downloads.” They offer some great advice to make… read more
Understanding HTTP Caching
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The HTTP protocol is rather powerful in and of itself. This is often forgotten as application developers incorporate caching technologies into their code itself. As… read more
A Smaller Database is a Faster Database. How Column Size Impacts Performance
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Intelligent design of a database is the single best way to keep it fast. This article looks at how column type impacts overall performance and… read more
Optimize WordPress Performance with the wp-config.php File
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As you may recall, there are a ton of configuration tricks available for the WordPress wp-config.php file. So many in fact, that I think many… read more
META Refresh Nullifies Caching for IE6 and IE7
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the bug is this: When a site uses a <META> refresh tag to send the visitor to a URL, IE6 and IE7 treat that as… read more
Infinite web scalability & resilience with Amazon Web Services
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Over the easter weekend I have been rewriting large parts of the content serving functionality of my webapps, extracting into a common code-base and getting… read more
Designing Web Applications for Scalability
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In this post, I’m going to go over some of the strategies I’ve used to architect web applications for scalability, right from the start of… read more
The Tao of Web Performance and Uptime
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Who cares about fast web pages. Who cares about uptime. I mean really.
Does it truly matter to you whether a page… read more
Deploying Drupal in the Cloud with Nginx and Boost
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Lately, we have been involved in a project where our clients needed a site capable of serving a large number of anonymous users and a… read more
WinCache, Apache and a pretty graph!
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Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server.… read more
