While many of the speed improvements can be made directly to the way the site is coded, a slow server can cripple your optimization efforts.
URL: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/time-to-first-byte/
Blog Archives
Taking optimization too far
Guy Podjarny explains and illustrates the consequences of taking one element of performance optimisation (in this case, inlining), and what happens if you take it past it’s performance tipping point.
URL: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2011/why-inlining-everything-is-not-the-answer/
Webpages are getting bloated – guess what’s to blame?
The team at Pingdom have looked at what is contributing to page bloat across the internet.
URL: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/11/21/web-pages-getting-bloated-here-is-why/
Google makes Site Speed Analytics easier
Google is now making access to their Site Speed reporting inside their Analytics product easier by removing the cumbersome requirement to add a specific tracking tag. Now all sites that use Google Analytics will have access to Site Speed data.
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/11/site-speed-now-even-easier-to-access.html
StumbleUpon too much of a speed anchor
The folks at Radware have dumped the StumbleUpon share function because there was no way to make it load asynchronously and slowed down their blogs.
URL: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2011/11/18/stumbleupon-button-third-party-content/
Delivering Exceptional Performance in under a Second
The folks at DynaTrace explain why user expectations of site performance have changed and how that translates to the technical aspects.
The 3 Important Limits to Response Times
Expectations of loading/response times chunked into three segments – and what they mean for visitors.
URL: http://www.zurb.com/article/830/response-times-the-3-important-limits
Reducing HTTP requests for boilerplate images
Multiple images being loaded in a CSS file can be mitigated (for modern browsers) using Data URIs. This is one of the better articles explaining the process and links to an online converting tool.
URL: http://www.7cynics.com/webdesign/css/css-inline-images-data-uri.html
Pingdom goes 2.0 on web page testing
Joining other tools like webpagetest.org, Pingdom beefs up its load test offering.
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