This hasn't been promoted much, but figured you all should know about it. http://www.artzstudio.com/2008/08/using-modconcat-to-speed-up-render-start/ Thanks to...
I like the idea of mod_concat but after a quick look we shied away from using it. The need to "hack" your HREF tags in your HTML is a showstopper for us; it...
Hello everyone, I have been reading up all over the web on ways to improve website performance. The Yahoo recommendations have been particularly useful to me...
Hey Chris, To both your questions - yes :) The YSlow recommendations are roughly in order of importance. I ran YSlow on your homepage and see that you have...
There have been a trickle of updates to the performance testing at www.webpagetest.org <http://www.webpagetest.org> over the past month or so (with the most...
In addition to what Stoyan mentioned, you may want to look at how you're doing the "FeaturedDestinationsHandler.ashx" support. If you could actually keep the...
How can you check to see what scripts are blocking? I will look into setting the images as static files as well. Thanks for all the help guys, I really...
If you look at the waterfall of the page load, nothing else loads in parallel with the scripts so you get a stair-step load. Getting rid of blocking requests...
One of the recommendations I have gotten for speed enhancement is to purchase an alternate domain and serve images from there. What I am wondering is how you...
Depending on how many images you are serving, be aware that new SSL connections are a LOT more expensive than plain socket connections so it takes quite a few...
Hi All, I have started looking into the AOL Pagetest tool. Find it very useful. In the report I noticed Time to Fully Loaded: x.xx seconds I wanted to know...
As long as the code causes something to be requested on the wire then it will be included in the times (javascript triggering an ad call, ajax, etc) and you...
... What we do is have a separate subdomain tied to a different IP address (static.newworldencyclopedia.org vs. www.newworldencyclopedia.org,) with thttpd...
... AFAIK, most firewalls and gateways (corporate and otherwise) do not allow HTTP access to ports other than 80. So this might not work. Regards Hrish -- Do I...
As a product manager I'm struggling to find any good examples of of a good eCommerce solution that scores higher than a "C" in YSlow. At first I though perhaps...
Hi I noticed the pagetest does not work with https transaction. Is their a way I can look at the waterfall for a https application? Also How different is the...
Do you have an example of where it doesn't work? The online version (http://www.webpagetest.org) was updated recently to improve the https support but...
i have created a Fuse for Yslow which allows community to build important bookmarks on their interested topic. http://www.httpfuse.com/fuse/Yslow It helps us...
You can in fact create wildcard certificates for your server. However, when you get a certificate by a certified CA, it probably costs more than a certificate...
Hello, Firebug 1.2 is now compatible with FF 3.0. Is also YSLow compatible with Firebug 1.2 and FF3.0? Regards, Sarah -- *Sarah **Carrez* QA Program Manager...
Am Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:02:27 +0200 ... Latest Firebug work fine with Firebug 1.2 and FF 3.x. Take a look at the Changelog. -- All possibility of understanding...
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for analyzing Apache Logs. I've stumbled onto PgFouine which we use for analyzing the performance of...
Hi Does anyone know how accurate the %D attribute in Apache CustomLog is ? From the manual page it says... %D = The time taken to serve the request, in...
i'm pretty sure it doesn't include network latency. its a measure of how long it takes apache to serve a request once its received it. it *would* include...
Hello group, I'm currently looking for a tool for throttling the connection speed to analyze a web application I'm working at. It should be able to manipulate...
Hi Ralph, Charles can do all this. It comes with a Firefox extension. Written in Java and works on Mac/Win/Linux. I've only used the Mac version. 30day trail...
Hi Ralph, Â I am aware of an opensource tool called WANem which you can try to simulate bandwidth & latency & also some other network parameters like packet...