2010 update: Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved 10/2011 update: You can also read the web page with Romanian translation (by Web Geek Science) Dec 21 This post is part of the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the articles to come. Perceived page loading time is just as important as […]
The pain points of having fewer components
Dec 6th, 20092010 update: Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved Dec 6 This is the sixth in the series of performance articles as part of my 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the next articles. Last night I talked about the benefits of reducing the number of page components and the resulting elimination […]
Reducing the number of page components
Dec 5th, 20092010 update: Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved Dec 5 This is the fifth in the series of performance articles as part of my 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the next articles. Let’s talk a but about waterfall optimization – the first thing that happens in Mr.Page’s life. The best […]
Performance tools
Dec 2nd, 20092010 update: Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved Dec 2 This is the second in the series of performance articles as part of my 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the next articles. While theoretically you can speed up your site by just blindly following advice from this blog and other […]
MHTML – when you need data: URIs in IE7 and under
Apr 10th, 2009UPDATE: It’s very important to have a closing separator in the MHTML document, otherwise there are known issues in IE7 on Vista or Windows 7. The details are here. In the previous post I described what data: URIs are and how they are useful to reduce the number of HTTP requests. Now, the problem with […]
data:urls – what are they and how to use them
Apr 10th, 2009If you follow this blog you already know the infamous website performance rule #1 – reduce the number of HTTP requests. Actually, to celebrate Earth Day and to jump the “go-green” wagon/jargon, my favourite performance mantra as of late is “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” (the Recycle part is a wee fuzzy but, oh well) So to […]
204 No Content
Mar 8th, 2009Sometimes you want to send an HTTP request and you don’t care about the response. This is often used for logging stuff on the server. Usually you request a 1×1 pixel GIF file and send a bunch of query parameters. E.g. htp://example.org/blank.gif?user=stoyan&browser=msie&creditcard=123JUSTKIDDING567 Such 1×1 gifs are often called “web bugs” or “beacons” and sometimes used […]
