Bastian Grimm gives more information and context for his recent presentation at SMX Stockholm. His presentation is included.
URL: http://www.stateofsearch.com/advanced-performance-optimization/
Blog Archives
Automating Web Performance with mod_pagespeed
Google’s Developer Advocate and Web Performance engineer gives a full breakdown on the performance gains that you can achieve with Google’s mod_pagespeed Apache module that he contributed to.
URL: http://www.igvita.com/2012/10/10/automating-web-performance-with-mod_pagespeed/
Benchmarking performance against 14,000 websites
The folks over at Yottaa have provided some interesting data points after performance analysis of 14,000 websites.
Proving the value of caching
King of Speed, Steve Souders provides more ammunition to why he believes (and backing up with data) that proper caching is one of the single biggest contributors to increasing site speed.
URL: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/10/11/cache-is-king/
ASP.NET Auto Spriting, Minification and Bundling solution
An IIS-friendly server package that combines and compresses CSS and JavaScript files, as well as dynamic spriting of boilerplate images.
Web Fonts – speed and beauty
Google developer advocate Ilya Grigorik explains how using Web Fonts doesn’t have to be a performance hurdle when it comes to making the web a pretty place to read.
URL: http://www.igvita.com/2012/09/12/web-fonts-performance-making-pretty-fast/
Breaking the Speed Limit: Why Faster Sites Win
PowerPoint presentation (11mb) on Site Speed for websites. Presented at SMX Melbourne in September 2012 by Mike Hudson
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4653795/Mike-Hudson_Faster-Sites-Win_SMX-Melbourne_Final.ppt
The Best CDN for jQuery
The folks at Pingdom have run some tests on different CDN hosted versions of the most popular JavaScript library in use today – jQuery. Lots of little insights for those looking to eek-out an extra second of performance.
URL: http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/07/24/best-cdn-for-jquery-in-2012/
Good news for Aussie websites using Amazon Web Services
Amazon, one of the leading CDN and web hosting services (as well as books and dvd’s), has recently announced that they have added an Australian Cloudfront and Route53 edge. This move will significantly decrease latency for those web sites using AWS.
URL: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/06/cloudfront-route-53-edge-location-in-sydney-australia.html
The page-bloat epidemic
Joshua Bixby from StrangeLoop talks about the steady increase of web-page sizes and how it’s affecting the growing mobile browsing audience.
URL: http://gigaom.com/2012/05/23/the-growing-epidemic-of-page-bloat/