This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitor.Us care. The Chronology of a Click, Part II Author: Warren Gaebel. This article continues the series, “The Chronology of a Click.” Part II describes what happens from the time… Read the full post

This article is presented in multiple parts. Part I was a simple overview of what goes on from the time the user clicks on a link to the time the new web page is completely available. It was our chance to see the forest before looking too closely at the many trees. Part II, today’s… Read the full post

This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitor.Us care about your website’s performance.

These simple truths: registers are faster than memory, memory is faster than external storage, external storage is faster than the local network, and the local network is faster than the Internet provide performance hints for web applications. One such hint is that we should store components on the local hard disk rather than retrieving them… Read the full post

This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitor.Us care. The Chronology of a Click, Part I Author: Warren Gaebel, B.A., B.C.S.This article details what happens behind the scenes from the time the user clicks on a link… Read the full post

If you’ve never heard about content management systems(CMS’s), this article is for you. If you think of content management systems as blogging environments, there’s much more to the story, so this article is for you, too.A content management system is a system that helps us manage content. [Well, that’s a pretty obvious definition, isn’t it?]… Read the full post

A user clicks on a link in a web page. Then he waits. Nothing seems to be happening, but he faithfully waits anyhow. Eventually the browser’s viewport goes blank. There’s nothing there but the white screen of death. Again he waits. Our hero is so-o-o patient. Eventually something appears – perhaps a header, perhaps an… Read the full post

This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. ALTER TABLE: Creating Index by Sort and Buffer Pool Size Author: Peter Zaitsev.  Publisher: MySql Performance Blog.This article shows how to sort SQL tables to achieve better index performance.