Your friends at Monitor.Us created a survey a few weeks ago. Developers, system administrators, and others were asked to identify the top website performance tips that had made the biggest difference in their webapps. The results are now in. The top ten tips, according to you, are outlined below.This survey dealt with loading and rendering tips. [...]

If a client machine’s CPU is over-utilized and it has only one processor, parallel processing will not improve performance; it may actually make it worse. However, if the machine has multiple processors and low CPU utilization, parallel processing will improve performance.Parallel processing occurs when sequences of code are executed simultaneously. There is some small overhead [...]

We who create websites talk much about performance, but talk little about what it is. Performance & Optimization Optimization is the attempt to increase or decrease some measureable value to its maximum or minimum. Examples: We can optimize a website for conversion to sales, time spent on site, number of visitors, and so on. We [...]

Today we are announcing the start of our second poll on the Monitor.Us blog.  Our previous poll was two weeks ago and was on Loading and Rendering tips. This new poll is focused on HTML performance tips.  We are asking that you vote for performance tips you find most useful. In our quest for faster websites, we constantly stumble upon [...]

The first step in addressing any problem is to gather information. For website performance problems, waterfall charts are a handy tool. What is a Waterfall Chart? A waterfall chart is a bar graph that shows the individual and cumulative effects of sequentially introduced values. In website performance analysis, each bar represents one component on a [...]

This Week in Client-Side Performance is a weekly feature on the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent web postings about client-side performance.Due to popular demand, This Week in JavaScript Performance has been expanded and split into two weekly articles. This Week in Client-Side Performance deals with the client side of the performance issue (HTML, DOM, CSS, [...]

It is easy to be critical. It is much harder to present practical solutions. I hesitate to write critical articles if they do not offer a better way. However, even though this article does not offer a better way, DOM performance is the elephant in the room that must be talked about. What’s Wrong With [...]

This Week in JavaScript Performance summarizes recent web postings related to JavaScript performance. Watch for it on the Monitor.Us blog at the beginning of each week. 86 percent of companies use multiple cloud services, says study   Author: Meghan Kelly.   Publisher: Venture Beat. This article shows how ubiquitous cloud-based services have become. “Today, 86 percent [...]

Every week we cover JavaScript performance tips in our blog and this particular blog post is also dedicated to JavaScript performance. We’ve collected top 10 JavaScript performance tips that will improve your website’s performance. 1. Download Faster With A Few Adjustments When web pages have high amounts of varying content, it can cause pages significant lag [...]

Over the last few months, Warren Gaebel listed, summarized, and discussed hundreds of website performance tips on The Monitor.Us blog. The tips were taken from many, many web pages. In most cases, they are believed to be true, but in general they remain mostly untested.Some tips are very effective. Others, though valid, have minimal impact. [...]