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

This series details what happens behind the scenes in response to a user’s click on a link. We’ve already seen the request go down the client machine’s protocol stack, across the Internet, up the server machine’s protocol stack, and into the web server software. If a server-side script was requested, the web server software passed… Read the full post

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:

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?

Welcome to Part V 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. Here’s what we’ve covered so far: The user clicks on a… Read the full post

Welcome to Part IV 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:

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. The Chronology of a Click, Part III Author: Warren Gaebel. This article continues the description of the behind-the-scenes activites from the time a user clicks on a link… Read the full post

This article details what happens after a user clicks on a link in a web page. It is presented chronologically, but interspersed with website performance tips that relate to the topic under consideration at that time. It is presented in multiple parts:   Part I – an overview of the entire process from beginning to… Read the full post