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Advice scaling website [duplicate]
We could use advice on a scaling/ops issue.
We have a simple website that runs on Rails 3.2.12 and uses MongoMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There is one database call that sporadically performs ...
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Why is there a huge gap before in my WebPageTest after the HTML has been downloaded?
I am trying to improve front-end performance of my website, and there is a 3.5 second lag before the user actually sees anything, and I'd like to improve this.
Here is a screenshot:
And here is the ...
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Why is loading speed of a website important for SEO?
I see everywhere on the internet how to optimize loading speed of a website but no one says why it's important for SEO.
Inevitably, there are reasons why Google has decided to take this factor into ...
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How to find out if my hosting's speed is good enough?
There are lots of different online performance tests:
Google PageSpeed Insights
iWebTool Speed Test
AlertFox Page Load Time
WebPageTest
Also there are several desktop/client software such as:
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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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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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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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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 ...
