Craig Buckler gives a comprehensive run down on areas to focus on when you’re on a mission to reduce the bloat.
URL: http://www.sitepoint.com/complete-guide-reducing-page-weight/
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Performance by Design
Nice little reminder on ensuring that the consideration of performance (benefits or impacts) is made during the web design and development process.
URL: https://medium.com/@eric_mobley/the-principals-of-performance-by-design-32d0a5306bbe
Lightening Your Responsive Website Design With RESS
Great article on how to not only delivery a great mobile web experience, but a radically faster one too.
Bonus Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/03/build-fast-loading-mobile-website/ – Great pre-reading.
URL: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/10/08/responsive-website-design-with-ress/
Redirects and SEO
Canonicalizaton of URLs (think www and no-www versions of the same site/page) using redirects as both an SEO and performance impact as explained in this article.
URL: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/redirect/
Diagnosing Waterfall Charts
Following on from our last link – What to look for when running performance tests and analyzing waterfall charts.
Waterfalls at a glance
WebPagetest creator Pat Meehan writes a great overview explaining web-performance site waterfalls and how to immediately recognise common issues.
URL: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/web-performance-waterfalls-from-10000-feet/
How Troy Hunt prepared haveibeenpwned.com for speed
Software Architect and Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt outlines his comprehensive approach to optimizing his new site for reduced bandwidth and improved speed to handle massive traffic spikes.
URL: http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/12/micro-optimising-web-content-for.html
E-Commerce is getting slower
Radware has published an updated infographic on the performance of the Alexa top 500 sites and measured their load times and Time To Interact – sadly things are getting worse
Performance Tuning the AirBnB way
The ‘nerds’ at AirBnB run though some of the steps and processes they used to reduce page load times.
Optimizing Start Render Times
Following on from their article breaking down Time To First Byte, this article goes into great detail on other steps to reduce that time between a blank page and something the visitor sees.
URL: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/start-render/