Comments on: How slow is your website?

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:38:04 +0000

Good to hear, I do like to keep things “whizzy” when I’m browsing - Else I tend to switch to another browser window and forget to come back to the other one :)

By: Matt Mickiewicz

Matt Mickiewicz — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:35:57 +0000

Karl - I agree with you 100%. That’s why we’re investing a lot of time and money into splitting off the MarketPlace & Contests onto their own dedicated server cluster. This will dramatically decrease the load on the articles/blogs/forums sections of our site, thus improving performance.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:09:21 +0000

Not tried it yet, but it looks like it just rates you based on the technology you are using and not actual performance, as to be honest I’d give Sitepoint.com an F for performance, it’s unfortunately one of the slowest sites I visit. Firebug reports 4 seconds to load this page.

By: MattCurry

MattCurry — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:01:41 +0000

For fun I did a comparison of similar sites and how their YSlow scores stack up.

By: Ryno

Ryno — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:46:10 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on an excellent little benchmarking tool and I think its a great way for beginners to become aware of potential clientside performance bottlenecks, even if they are not sure what the recommendations mean. But hey, that’s what Google is for!

By: pippo

pippo — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:55:49 +0000

it is incredible how many dumb, arrogant idiots surf the web just to leave their spammy and pointless comments.
Sitepoint site is not slow it just features a lot of content unlike your undegraduate resumeè that u mantain on university free space.
Dear jim if all you know about xss attacks is that pathetic 1995-style javascript alert, I suggest you buy some sitepoint’s fine book on the topic and get a bit more knowledge.

p.s.
I’m not related with Sitepoint, I just hate idiotic criticism.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:07 +0000

this book explains all the performance rules:
High Performance Web Sites

By: McKenna

McKenna — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:36:26 +0000

A CDN is a content delivery network which caches media content (images, videos etc), mirrors the content to lots of different servers around the world and delivers them to the user from the most appropriate location (e.g. the server that’s closest to the user). Lots of companies use them. The most common one I have seen is Akami which serves Apple.com’s images.

By: projectsinfo

projectsinfo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:44:59 +0000

I couldn’t understand CDN and ETags. Can you explain the advantages of it?

Thanks
Robin

By: bvarvel

bvarvel — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:43:53 +0000

Speaking of - can someone point me to how-to’s to enable gzip and expires headers? I was thinking in .htaccess, but that just seemed to break my site. Any links to info?