Speed up your Website

Page performance is one of the first digital touchpoints a prospect or customer has with a brand. Not surprisingly, it is also one of the biggest drivers of satifaction (or dissatifaction) and engagement (or abandonment). The interesting thing about optimizing page load time is that it almost always entails aggregating a number of individual improvements [...]

The future of the web is in personalization. Web sites will always contain a lot of static assets like images, video / audio, CSS and JS, many of which can be cached in the browser, but the remaining challenge is generating the HTML for a given request. So the question becomes, how do we quickly [...]

The AT&T domain name server (DNS) outage of Aug. 15, 2012 demonstrates why a non-cached method of DNS monitoring results in a faster time-to-repair (TTR), and even zero downtime due to the DNS issue. To Cache or Not-to-Cache – that is the DNS Question Firstly, it is not generally well-known that external-based HTTP request-type website [...]

During the day, I’m the VP of Sales @NetDNA. That makes me spin up our Catchpoint and Keynote accounts to run performance tests on all kinds of websites. Below you’ll find some time-tested and very common performance tweaks that are 1) safe to use, 2) best-practices and 3) like gzip, actually help reducing bandwidth consumption [...]

A fast loading website is so important to your bottom line that we have dedicated this whole month to it.  We posted a lot of great articles and many companies are giving away FREE web performance tools. (Make sure you grab them, there are only two days left!) To celebrate the end of Speed Awareness Month, we [...]

I thought this seemed like a timely post given Keynote’s new report showing that 64% of smartphone users expect sites to load in 4 seconds or less. This finding isn’t a total surprise. Previous studies have shown that people expect sites to load at least as fast on their mobile devices as they do on [...]

Origin Content Acceleration is an emerging new technology that solves the issue of distance-related network latency on a webpage download by accelerating origin-served content from the server to the end-user using algorithms to fix inefficient network protocols. OCA accelerates all content – dynamic and static – all the way to the end-user’s computer or mobile [...]

We at Varnish Software are all about speed. Our web accelerator, Varnish Cache, is built for speed. It executes its policy code more or less a thousand times faster than your typical Java or PHP based application servers, mostly due to the fact that the configuration is compiled into system call free machine code. System [...]

I recently spoke at WordCamp San Francisco on some simple tips how to speed up WordPress. I mentioned some really good points on making you site faster, like on caching and optimizing your images. I hope you enjoy the video. Happy #SpeedMonth

(This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a company proud to lend some expertise and insight into Speed Awareness Month.) My latest performance annoyance with DNS is the proliferation of long CNAME chains employed by various service providers around the Internet to topologically geolocate end-users and end-user networks. The concern is that many people don’t understand [...]

Joomla!® is in the top three CMS solutions in the world. The ultimate power of Joomla lies in the many available extensions. If you need a certain feature that Joomla does not have by default, there is a huge chance that one of the 10,000+ extensions will provide you with the solution. Need a commenting [...]

Nowadays complex applications and mission-critical systems demand ever more network speed and capacity. The most demanding sectors are stockbroking, commodities trading, online gaming, video streaming, and VoIP. However it’s hard to think of any business area that would not benefit from improved network performance. Latency and throughput are the main factors that define the performance [...]

In this short article we’re going to explore a few simple things any site can do to reach a higher page speed score and reduce load times. Does this image make me look fat? In my experience one of the biggest factors for slow page speed is large image sizes. One of the first things [...]

After being a Level 3 Support Engineer for a year and a half I have seen pretty much everything related to WPO (Web Performance Optimization). One thing that I have noticed is that a lot of new MaxCDN customers sign up thinking: “Ah ha, finally the silver bullet! Once I enable a Content Delivery Network, my [...]

(This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a company proud to lend some expertise and insight into Speed Awareness Month.) At Dyn, we continually obsess over the performance of our clients’ web sites, dynamic applications and rich content that they provide to their customers. We help our clients win the latency battle by taking away the [...]

If you’re wondering how to make your website faster, there are various components to consider that could be hindering your speed. Performance bottlenecks on the web fall into one of 3 categories: Hardware Network Software Hardware related performance bottlenecks are often the easiest to fix – just add more, better or faster servers. There’s not [...]