
In this tutorial, we go through some effective performance hacks for developing Symfony apps on Vagrant virtual machines
In this tutorial, we go through some effective performance hacks for developing Symfony apps on Vagrant virtual machines
Scott revisits Appserver and benchmarks it against Symfony to dispel the rumors of bas performance. Does he succeed? Tune in to find out!
Daniel Berman explains what the ELK stack is, how to install it, and how to make it analyze the logs of the typical LAMP stack
Simon introduces Google Chrome's Data Saver, a feature for mobile and desktop that saves bandwidth without increasing load times — much.
Younes Rafie explains how to enqueue your plugin and theme scripts, and the best way to avoid loading them inside every page on your website.
M. Lavaryen explains the Blackfire profiler in depth and demonstrates its use on a simple script, laying the groundwork for further exploration on your end!
An individual web page now exceeds 2.2MB. Are pages 16% better than in 2014 or have developers and site owners unconsciously created an obesity epidemic?
Donald Dragoti looks at some of the special features of the new Vivaldi browser, and why you might consider making the switch.
Christopher Pitt re-introduces generators on a practical demo by reading and writing large CSV files while using very little memory.
Narayan introduces Munee - a PHP lib that automates CSS, JS, LESS, SCSS, CoffeeScript etc minification and compilation, image resizing, caching, and more!
Hugo Giraudel introduces you to a library he has developed to preload images in parallel using promises. Performance for the win!
Here's a look at Yahoo's MySQL performance analyzer - we go through its options, from graphs to alerts. It's getting ever easier to speed up your DBs!
Peter Bengtsson discusses how to measure the performance of your JavaScript functions and how to avoid some common pitfalls.
Craig Buckler details 5 performance tweaks to speed up Express apps. If you thought Node.js & Express were already fast, these will make them faster still!
In this tutorial, Bruno implements a Redis cache into an existing application - learn how you can speed up your apps by many factors in just minutes!
Wern Ancheta goes through another set of common caching techniques in PHP: Varnish, Memcached and libraries like Doctrine Cache and Stash
Wern Ancheta covers three common approaches to caching in PHP: Zend Opcache, Query Caching and Expires Headers.
Browser repaints and reflows are expensive and affect your application's performance. Craig provides ten tips to help improve responsiveness.
This article explains how you can use Grunt to automate performance testing.
This article looks at 5 Grunt tasks that can easily improve the performance of your website.
This article looks at 10 simple tasks that can improve performance of a Node.js web application.
Tom Butler did an analysis on DI container performance and published his results in this post. They're not what you would expect.
Page weights have been spiralling out of control in recent years. Ada looks at 5 online image compression tools that might help get your pages in shape.
Jacek Barecki discusses how you can speed up your app's API consumption - make it perform API requests better and faster
Learn about some less known web performance techniques
Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox : Scalability and performance monitoring of Dropbox straight from second engineer at dropbox.
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If you've been frustrated by sluggish browser performance when using CSS effects, the CSS Stress Test bookmarklet might help you identify the problem.