I’ve spent several months researching performance tips on the World-Wide Web. Occasionally I see a comment that one or another tip is a “micro-optimization,” a term that is intended to dismiss it as not worth considering. While I personally don’t like passing on an opportunity to improve performance, I can certainly understand where these comments [...]

The World-Wide Web offers more PHP performance tips than can be comfortably discussed in one article, so the following is merely a list that can be used for reference purposes. The tips are divided into categories to group similar things together and make it easier to find what we need. The author’s search for tips [...]

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 [...]

This is the fourth of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. The first of these four articles presented an overview and some installation tips. The second article talked about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the third [...]

This is the third of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. The first of these four articles presented an overview and some installation tips. The second article talked about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the article [...]

This is the second of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. The first of these four articles presented an overview and some installation tips. The article you are now reading talks about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips [...]

This is the first of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. It presents an overview and some installation tips. The second article talks about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the third article and SQL tips in [...]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article wraps up the discussion about the journey-from-the-client-to-the-server category by outlining a few tips that weren’t discussed in previous articles.

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article continues the discussion of the journey-from-the-client-to-the-servercategory by examining what DNS lookups do to that journey. DNS Lookups Are Automatic When the user’s browser requests a web page from the server, it first [...]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article introduces the journey-to-the-servercategory by looking at how cookies impact that journey. Problem #1 – Cookies Are Sent, But Not Used Here’s a riddle for you: Why should we send cookies to a [...]