Tumblr Architecture – 15 Billion Page Views A Month
The guys at High Scalability have a fantastic post regarding Tumblr and their architecture , setup and scaling. Find out how they go about serving 15 billion page views a month: "Tumblr started as a...
View ArticleMagento hosting on a budget – Server Fault
There's a good question over on Server Fault from 'Spa' asking about Magento hosting on a budget. He outlines a few possible ways of achieving the performance he needs. The top answer from Sonassi...
View ArticlePHP performance tips – Make the Web Faster
Google published a great article providing some great tips on PHP Performance. The post covers topics such as profiling your code, avoiding duplications and SQL in loops: "PHP is a very popular...
View ArticleJavaScript Performance Best Practices
Over on the Nokia Developer Site there is a post about JavaScript Performance Best Practices. It consists of many areas you can improve your JavaScript Performance, starting with Core JavaScript...
View ArticleHow a CDN works
There's a great post at ZippyKid about how a CDN works. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) helps your website performance by serving static assets such as images, CSS and JavaScript files from a...
View ArticleUS web users are less patient than the rest of the world
This excellent article entitled 'How One Second Could Cost Amazon $1.6 Billion In Sales' takes research on U.S net habits and discovers that US web users are less patient than the rest of the world:...
View ArticleMeasuring Front-end Performance With Real Users
Over on the Etsy blog there is and article about measuring front-end performance with real users. Based on a comment on their last article from Steve Sounders, Etsy tested his theory and published the...
View ArticleThe Perception of Speed
Steve Sounders has posted a new article titled 'The Perception of Speed'. He discusses how some webpages don't clear the screen immediately upon clicking a link but wait for new content before...
View ArticleSteve Sounders: Web Performance Community and Conversation
Steve Sounders has published a post discussing the beginnings of the Web Performance Community. He writes about how the conversation picked up momentum and where the best places to continue the...
View ArticleWebPageTest API
The webpagetest.org website is an incredibly useful resorce for testing website performance. Marcel Duran has written an API tool to interact with the site. Using node.js and npm to install you can...
View ArticleHow to Test and Benchmark CDNs and what data to look for.
An article at Catchpoint.com details how to test and benchmark CDNs. They discuss the methods they use to test and provide some tips on testing different types of data (Static content, full page...
View ArticleTracking Bounce Rates for Rails Applications in New Relic Using Redis
Tracking Bounce Rates for Rails Applications in New Relic Using Redis Bounce rates are a key metric for tracking the quality and usefulness of content on your site. By using New Relic to measure your...
View ArticleWebsite Performance At The Design Stage
A post by Brad Frost explains why Website Performance is not just about DNS lookups and minifying your assets, but its about measuring website performance at the design stage: "The road towards better...
View ArticlePerformance Monitoring: Backend vs Frontend Solutions
On Yottaa yesterday Alex Pinto published a fantastic article called "Performance Monitoring: Back-end vs Front-end Solutions" in which he outlines the differences between back-end and front-end...
View ArticleWordPress Performance Optimization
A guest post on New Relic by Frederick Townes, titled 'Wordpress Performance Optimization', details a number of ways to improve WordPress performance. Using New Relic to analyze disk, memory, MySQL...
View ArticleRailgun doubles website performance at CloudFare and Amazon (amongst others)
An article on ArsTechnica announces how a collection of web hosting and service companies such as CloudFare and Amazon will start supporting Railgun: "Railgun is said to make it possible to double the...
View ArticleWhy e commerce performance is getting slower
Radware have produced a great infographic showing why e commerce performance is getting slower. Here's a summary of the report's findings: The median page load speed for e commerce sites is 7.25s...
View ArticleHow Magento performance affects your sales
A new post by myself (Andrew McCombe) was published on the iWebsolutions Blog a few days ago detailing how Magento performance affects your sales: In this age of high-speed broadband people expect...
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