#hpw (124 links)
- High Performance Web Sites :: Wikia: fast pages retain users stevesouders.com
Wikia measures exit rate - the percentage of users that leave the site from a given page. Here they show that exit rate drops as pages get faster. The exit rate goes from ~15% for a 2 second page to ~10% for a 1 second page. This is another data point to add to the list of stats from Velocity that show that faster pages is not only better for users, it’s better for business.
- web-optimizator - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Does about a billion things to optimize sites. Tempting but not sure how much I'd trust this; feels like a sledgehammer option.
- Website performance Q&A with Steve Souders from Google | Royal Pingdom royal.pingdom.com
Statistics from Amazon, Google, Jupiter Research and others show that a faster web site increases traffic, repeat visits, clicks, and conversions. There are two other motivations, in addition to these user metrics, that I give for always working to improve the speed of your web site. First, even if your site is fast enough for some users, there are always other users with slower connections. Mediocre performance in the U.S. means an unbearable experience in other parts of the world. If you hope to attract and retain a global audience, your site has to be blazingly fast under normal conditions so that under degraded conditions it’s still usable.
- Let's make the web faster - Google Code code.google.com
Google hops on the performance bandwagon. Should be interesting.
- To Sprite Or Not To Sprite at Vladimir Vukićević blog.vlad1.com
"There are a number of misconceptions about CSS Sprites, the main one being that they have no downsides." Memory usage.
- Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » YSlow and Continuous Integration adam.goucher.ca
This post explains how, if I didn’t have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate right now, I would get YSlow failing builds.
- Hammerhead stevesouders.com
Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.
- Page Speed firebug extension code.google.com
Google's answer to ySlow.
- django-compress - Google Code code.google.com
A Django application that automates CSS/JavaScript compression and helps in making delivery of static media more efficient
- mezzoblue § Sprite Optimization mezzoblue.com
interesting variation of CSS Sprites has been getting a lot of play on large web sites that serve millions of users.
- Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Content-encoding: gzip for text files ... developer.amazonwebservices.com
No gzip on Cloudfront (yet); suggested workaround.
- Amazon CloudFront aws.amazon.com
"A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." Beaut.
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.
- Particletree » Automatically Version Your CSS and JavaScript Files particletree.com
Clever clever. "What this does is quietly redirects any files located in our \scripts\ or \css\ folders with version numbers in between the file name and the extension back to just the filename and extension."
- Coding Horror: YSlow: Yahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems codinghorror.com
Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world.
- YSlow for Firebug developer.yahoo.com
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
- mindtangle » Blog Archive » Optimizing the Frontend mindtangle.net
Notes from O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo. The workshop was “High Performance Webpages,” a dense, three-hour session with two leads on Yahoo!’s front-end optimization team.
- 14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog) skrenta.com
14 rules for faster front end performance