JavaScript tuning tools help to reduce the amount of time required to find leaks, tweak performance and monitor Java Virtual Machines. Developers who want to decrease their time troubleshooting can benefit from the advanced heuristics and simple graphical interfaces that display essential data. Tools greatly help to reduce the amount of time manually searching through [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 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 [...]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips in­tro­duced a clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme to help us or­ga­nize the many per­form­ance tips found on the In­ter­net.  To­day’s ar­ti­cle de­scribes a few tips that re­late to the synchronicitycategory. Set Priority Levels Some languages allow pro­gram­m­ers to set CPU pri­o­ri­ty levels.  Down­load­ing Java­Script told us to down­load maybe-needed-later scripts af­ter ex­e­cut­ing needed-soon [...]

Like it or not, your end-users will judge your website.  If, in their judgment, it is perceived to be slow, that judgment will partly determine how often they return.  It will also affect their friends’ decisions insomuch as user experiences are shared.  That’s why monitoring the user experienceis so important.Now on to the next step.  [...]