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The Chronology of a Click, Part XII

This series has been following the chronological progress of a click on a link. The click was converted to a request, sent to the server, and processed by the server. The server created a response and sent it back to the client, where the client-side script executed. Today’s episode tells how the output from the… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part XI

This series has been following the progress of a request and its response. The request was initiated by an end-user’s click on a link, which signified his request for some web page to be downloaded and presented to him. So far in this series, we’ve seen the back-end (i.e., the server) fill the request and… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part X

When we left off last time, our hero had bravely traversed the Internet and found his way back to the client machine. What courage! What tenacity! What a component!Now that the component has arrived at the client machine, it must make its way up the protocol stack, which is the subject of this part. Climbing… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part IX

At the end of Part VIII the user’s request had been served, but had only made it to the bottom of the protocol stack in the server machine. This part describes the next step, the journey through the Internet from the server machine to the client machine.Part III described this journey in the opposite direction.… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part VIII

We’ve reached a milestone in this series. When the user clicked on that link way back at the beginning, it was a request for a web page. Parts II through VII saw the request being transported to the server and the server finding or building the web page (the response). Now, after all that, the… Read the full post

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The Chronology of a Click, Part VI

Welcome to Part VI of Chronology of a Click. This series chronologically details what happens after a user clicks on a link in a web page. It is interspersed with website performance tips that relate to the topic being discussed. It is presented in multiple parts:

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High Performance Websites: Book Review

A long time ago (in computing terms, that works out to about half a decade), a man named Souders and a company named O’Reilly got together to publish a book about website performance. I wonder if they knew just how important that book would become?

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This Week in Website Performance

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. Essential Server Performance Metrics you should know, but were reluctant to ask Author: zhirayr. There are a great many important metrics that allow you to evaluate the health… Read the full post