Performance, when regarding websites, is normally divided into two main areas of optimization: back-end performance and front-end performance. Back-end performance relates to techniques that improve the speed and/or overhead at server level, whether it be database queries (reducing the number of), ...
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SEO/performance - building blog article page [closed]
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What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my ...
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How can I measure website page load times from different countries?
Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers.
I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based ...
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How To Move From WordPress To GitHub Pages?
I'm considering moving my blog, Dream In Tech, which is WordPress CMS running on my Rackspace Cloud Server, to GitHub Pages because I'm starting to have performance issues, but how to move the posts, ...
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Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension
In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a ...
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What's the best web site performance tool for end-users?
When I receive reports that my website is running slowly, I would like to be able to point the end-users to a performance/profiling tool that is easy to use and that has a feature where the end-users' ...
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Speed up your website?
I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately I have been building a website myself, basically from scratch. Is there ...
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discountasp.net / shared hosting for an ecommerce website [closed]
Is there any disadvantage on using shared hosting in general (of discountasp.net) for an ecommerce website? security concerns or performance? The site is new and we dont expect many visitors right ...
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Slow DNS lookup on my site?
I'm testing the loading speeds of my website.
I've just done a test using Pingdom but it returns some strange (at least to me) results:
By the looks of it getting the DNS info takes the most time.
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What could be preventing Google Chrome developer tools' audit from completing?
I'm trying to run Chrome developer tools' audit on http://www.zmxmusic.com, and it never completes... just gets up to about "Loading (61 of 61)" with the spinner but never shows the results.
If I ...
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What sense can be made out of TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, ESTABLISHED
Using netstat command, I got the number of couple of TCP states of connections.
But for running websites, how to make meaningful connections between these numbers and the bottleneck/performance of ...
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How to find the Fastest DNS servers to host our domain?
The question was born because lately we've seen a pretty odd (well, at least for us, for the first time) - error message in Google webmaster tools - "DNS lookup timeout" ... I was pretty sure that ...
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Fastest open-source e-commerce featured CMS or web-framework?
I have been researching about 20 different open-source e-commerce featured CMSs and web-frameworks, but there seem to be way more than just them available.
Has anyone run some benchmarks against a ...
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What latency do you expect when serving static files?
I'm running some latency measurements using Web Page Speed Test on a static javascript file. I compared hosting the file at four locations: Host Monster, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront, and Heroku ...
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Question about web hosting speed
I started using a VPS with HostGator not long ago,
they have 9 levels of VPS and I started out with level 3.
I'm testing a page on the website and it doesn't take too long to load,
something like 2 ...
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Everything needed to run a high-traffic web site
I'm an experienced front-end web developer, while my back-end experience has occurred only within the context of Drupal. Basically, the deeper things go into the back end, the more inexperienced I am. ...
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Rackspace Cloud Servers Vs. Amazon EC2 [closed]
I've recently come across this "independent" performance comparison - advertised by Rackspace on their product comparison page - which shows that Rackspace is better than EC2 in terms of pricing and ...
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When is it time to move on from WordPress?
My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server.
At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not ...
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CDN solutions pros and cons
As the sysadmin in our organization I've been asked to look into CDN solutions as we have plans to roll out a web platform that is targeted at developing countries. Here is my research so far on the ...
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Set expiry date for image or resource
How do I set expiry date for an image?
Is this a server side operation or can it be done as an html tag attribute?
What if I only want to set different expiry dates for different images/resources?
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is it true that CloudFlare really doesn't affect dynamic content?
I've been reading the CloudFlare FAQ, I understand that is acts as a reverse proxy
and all requests to your domain will go through CloudFlare.
They say in the FAQ that it won't slow down dynamic ...
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Choose from client best server to download from
My web site has a download of a file of about 10Mb. I can have it stored in more than one server and was thinking of a way to offer the download to the best performing server (performance measured ...
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Adding Google +1 Button Slows Page Load Time
This article says Google +1 tags can add a second to page load time, which means a 10% decline in visitors.
The article authors say they use smart tag loading to reduce page load time.
Does anyone ...
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When and when not to use a CDN
I'm working on a web-application that loads a couple of small gif images onto the screen. I'm using a relative path, which means they are loaded from the same web server that serves the php page. The ...
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How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring “Site Performance”?
I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and ...
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How does server connection speed affect website performance?
A web host I'm considering quotes their server connection speed for their basic package as '15Mb/s burstable.' They offer an upgrade to a more expensive package with a '35Mb/s burstable' speed.
I ...
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Is there a maximum size that web pages should be kept under?
Posted this on SO before Ben Voigt was nice enough to direct me here. Anywho, here is my question:
When I say size I'm talking about bytes not pixels.
I'm curious if there is any consensus on what ...
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How is this site so fast?
how is the website http://dftba.com/ so fast?
when i click a link it loads right then? what makes it work like this? how do i make it work like this on my site?
some of the objects on the site are ...
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Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph
Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, in the text they say my site is faster than 63% of sites, but when I look at ...
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testing random pages for uptime (part of an SLA)
We have outsourced hosting of a large website.
We have an SLA for response times of random pages. I.e. every minute a random page will be chosen from a pool of 30,000 pages and its response time ...
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One JS/CSS bundle Vs. One with default and one with custom
On a few of my sites, we use Javascript/CSS bundles to reduce load time. I've always used two bundles for each type (4 in total) so I have
JS Bundle 1: Contains scripts that are standard on every ...
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Do heavy graphics and/or a high load time affect a site's search rankings?
Does the use of heavy graphics/images (with img tag or in the CSS) effect a site's Google ranking?
Sometimes sites are heavy because of the images used or Flash or lots of JavaScript - making the ...
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Actual page load time vs. perceived one
You know how all around the web, people are pushing for smaller and smaller page load times ? They do so with good reason, especially with Google now factoring it in in their way to rank pages. It's ...
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If my web application is under a server will it perform better than if it is under a shared hosting?
Assuming that I have build an application using PHP, let's say something like vBulletin or assume that I will install the vBulletin itself. Will it performs better if it is in a VPS rather than a ...
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What is the easiest and fastest way to get statistics of a webservice response time?
I implemented a webservice with node.js and want to test its response time. I don't just want to do the test with one connection attempt, but I want statistics about multiple attempts, telling me the ...
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speeding up django server [closed]
My setup is django 1.3 and the default mod_wsgi and apache packages for ubuntu 10.04. I tested one view of my app on my development VM (DEBUG and debugging toolbar off):
ab -n 200 -c 5 ...
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How to improve Postfix+Dovecot performance?
I have 3 dedicated servers: 1 for App (PHP, Python), 1 for Databases (MySQL) and 1 for MTA (Postfix)
I'm using Interspire Email Marketer for mailing, and I'm having something like 20k mails / hour ...
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Website has “lagging” effect. Causes? Tips and tricks to fix?
So I have this site here which has major performance issues. Scrolling is very slow, hover effects have a bit of lag and other similar issue. Unfortunately right now I am working off a cheap host so I ...
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WordPress MySQL Performance
I have a website (www.americanbankingnews.com) that gets 40,000-50,000 page views today. It's currently sitting on a dedicated quad-core Xeon server with 8GB of ram. The site is powered by WordPress ...
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Load times and SEO for 1 page sites
I find that 1 page sites can be interactive animating from page to page. But if a site starts to get a little larger or contains many images, perhaps an image gallery, it loads slowly. Also its not ...
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How to make sure that my web application would be stable? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you load test your application?
Hi,
I have finished 95% of my web application. Now, I would like to make sure that the website is stable even with 5000 or more ...
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How is Apple's enormously image-heavy site served so fast?
Took a profile of the "Smart Cover" page on Apple's site using Pingdom. It's requesting 241 objects for a total page weight of 3472.6 KB! An absolute mammoth.
How does this possibly translate into ...
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How to test high load on a website? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you load test your application?
Hi,
I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement ...
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GZipped Images - Is It Worth?
Most image formats are already compressed. But in fact, if I take an image and compress it [gzipping it], and then I compare the compressed one to the uncompressed one, there is a difference in size, ...
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What's the best FREE CDN service available?
It seems like using CDN is a best option to provide users a great browsing experience. But, plans of the major CDN providers seem costly. So, I would like to get used to the CDN thing before I ...
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Service and/or tool to monitor performance?
I am seeing wildly different performance from a clients web site, and would like to set up some sort of monitoring.
What I'm looking for is a service that will issue requests to a couple of URLs, and ...
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KPI's for Webmasters
Do you know any Key Performance Indicators for Webmasters? What should be measured and monitored?
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SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?
We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and
we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain.
We want to go from ...
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Best way to have both HTTP and HTTPS communication in a web application?
I am considering using both HTTP and HTTPS in a web application and I am looking for tips to accomplish this best. The application will run under Tomcat.
I have also seen the following about HTTPS ...
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Track page size of web app for performance
I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:
The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)
The number of ...
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web page performance testing in Internet Explorer
How can I get the web page load speed and data amount in Internet Explorer? I know about PageSpeed and Firebug for Firefox, is there an equivalent of those tools for IE?
