Wern Ancheta covers three common approaches to caching in PHP: Zend Opcache, Query Caching and Expires Headers.
Tag: performance
Browser repaints and reflows are expensive and affect your application's performance. Craig provides ten tips to help improve responsiveness.
Barbara Bermes gives an overview of the book Lean Websites, covering site components that affect website performance, and how to approach website optimization.
In developing Edge, Microsoft has made thousands of changes to jettison the legacy of the past and to improve support for the web of today and tomorrow.
Microsoft's David Catuhe explains how to optimize your JavaScript performance with user marks and tools found in Internet Explorer and Project Spartan
There's no doubt speed matters. In this article we cover some of the common methods used for tuning WordPress to handle higher amounts of traffic.
This article explains how you can use Grunt to automate performance testing.
There are many ways of scaling your website. In this article we focus on database tweaks and optimizations that can improve WordPress performance.
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.
In this article we discuss 5 good reasons why you should be using a CDN with WordPress.
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) can easily pinpoint WordPress performance issues, help make your site faster, and troubleshoot problematic plugins.
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
Learn about unique index and the way they can increase performance when built correctly
Learn about HHVM, the Hip Hop Virtual Machine that powers Facebook's PHP
Performant PHP - easy hints and tips that make your applications fly
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Comparing CloudFlare and Incapsula providers of CDN and security as a service
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.
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