Category: Web-Performance


How to speed up the rendering of your website
by Cory Rauch Category:Web-Performance
So you have invested in an awesome website design complete with flash animation and fancy AJAX effects. You have increased your level of hosting service to maybe even a dedicated server or cluster of servers. But you still notice a slight delay? It may look like a blank screen with the status bar showing tons of CSS and Javascript files loading then the content renders. Or it maybe where the page loads and it hangs for a while and then goes and finishes loading. Whatever it looks like, you maybe suffering from rendering speed due to the design of your site. In this article we will go over what this is and some things you can do to increase the speed of rendering on your website.
Date:2008-11-28

Ubuntu Apache Performance Tip
by Cory Rauch Category:Web-Performance
In a previous post I discussed using Cache-Control to tune web server performance. In this post I will include how to do this specifically on Ubuntu Server.
Date:2007-06-03

Speeding up your web server with Cache Control
by Cory Rauch Category:Web-Performance
Using simple cache control directives you can speed up website by enabling better cache coverage when serving up pages. In this small tutorial I will go over one way of controlling caching using the cache-control directive.
Date:2007-05-15

PHP v5.2 vs PHP v5.1
by Cory Rauch Category:Web-Performance
With the release of latest version of PHP, v5.2, one the biggest improvements where performance enhancements. So I decided to benchmark v5.2 vs v5.1 to see the impact of the new changes since I think many are looking forward to this release.
Date:2006-11-13

Making Web Pages Faster
by Cory Rauch Category:Web-Performance
Probably one of the biggest problems facing any website is keeping it performing well. So what optimization can be done? Well you can start from server software and work up all the way to the content. This could be mean tuning Apache, MySQL, and using some sort of PHP Cache solution. But what if you have already done all of these measures? What other ways can improve the performance of your website? In this articles I am examine methods you can use to optimize your website content which is another piece of the equation for performance. Of course this still is dependent on outside factors including bandwidth and server resources, but it will enable you to get more out of your current servers.
Date:2005-09-08

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