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 [...]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips intro­duced a clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme to help us or­ga­nize the many per­for­mance tips found on the In­ter­net.  Since Yahoo’s five most highly-weighted tips fall in­to the jour­ney from the ser­ver to the cli­entca­te­go­ry, we might ex­pect this ca­te­go­ry to of­fer the best im­prove­ment in web ap­pli­ca­tion per­for­mance.  This and my next [...]

Do you want your customers and/or employees to have a speedy, no-hassle end-user experience when they use your website or server, respectively? Of course you do – because an unsatisfied end-user means lost business – as in the case of a customer – or a really annoyed employee – as in the case of a [...]