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/
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/
Following on from our last link – What to look for when running performance tests and analyzing waterfall charts.
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/
Dan Riti explains how he took a relatively standard BootStrap example website and optimized it to achieve a score of 100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
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
IISpeed is an IIS webserver extension that ports mod_pagespeed from Google.
Fantastic primer on speeding up your website – nothing new in terms of techniques, but great delivery with examples.
The guys from Zoompf (one of our favourite site speed tools) conducted a huge study on how site speed correlates to search engine rankings. The findings are fittingly published on SEO-centric Moz.com.
URL: http://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-actually-impacts-search-ranking
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