As the reader already knows, computers don’t speak JavaScript. They speak their own language (machine code). Sadly, there is not just one machine language; there are several, and they are subject to change.In order to run a JavaScript program, the program must be translated into the client machine’s machine code. No matter how much we [...]

To quote myself:  ”A smart person learns from his mistakes. A truly wise person learns from other people’s mistakes”. Today I am taking you on an odyssey of discovery. I recently did some PHP performance testing to measure the effectiveness of some of the tips in Website Performance: PHP. I made some mistakes and I [...]

Website Performance: PHP and similar articles list many PHP performance tips, but lists of tips sometimes contain spurious advice, or at least advice of minimal value. We really must measure the effectiveness of a tip in our own production environment before judging its worth. Test Harness for PHP offers us a simple little PHP program that [...]

This Week in JavaScript Performance summarizes recent web postings related to JavaScript performance. Watch for it at the beginning of each week. Comparative Evaluation of JavaScript Frameworks   Authors: Andreas B. Gizas, Sotiris P. Christodoulou and Theodore S. Papatheodorou.   Publisher: World-Wide Web 2012. This concise, but revealing, paper evaluates ExtJS, Dojo, jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, and [...]

This Week in JavaScript Performance summarizes recent web postings related to JavaScript performance. Watch for it at the beginning of each week. Radio link and Nav Timing Author: Steve Souders.   Publisher: Steve Souders.This article shows how to measure DNS time, connect time, TTFB, HTML parsing time, and front-end time on the Android 4, which promotes/demotes [...]

In this article you can find some easy steps you can follow to maximize the performance of your ASP.NET applications. 1. Use caching. When multiple users request the same content from your page, your server can respond with a cached copy of that content. This way, only the first user will have to wait for [...]

Improving your HTML performance is a key factor in the success of your website. There are certain factors that you need to be aware of when it comes improving your HTML code to optimize your website, and ultimately gain a better conversion rate.The latest HTML5 will improve the functionality of your website and make it [...]

In Website Performance: JavaScript, I provided a couple of comments about the effectiveness of some of the tips. I obtained this information by conducting my own tests on the three browsers that are installed on my little netbook computer (just about the slowest computer you could ever hope to own).Here is the harness I used [...]

This Week in JavaScript Performance summarizes recent web postings related to JavaScript performance. Watch for it at the beginning of each week. Progressive Enhancement 2.0 Presenter: Nicholas Zakas.   Publisher: yuilibrary. This 50 minute presentation is from the March 5 BayJax event. Zakas shares his vision of progressive enhancement. Cache them if you can Author: Steve [...]

This article lists many of the JavaScript performance tips found on the World-Wide Web. The focus is on listing them concisely rather than explaining them. Please read the referenced articles at the bottom for further information. The tips are classified to make it a little easier to find what we need.The author has tested some [...]