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How to improve your website load time

26 points by dmytton 17y ago

nreece 17y ago
Actually, there are a few more ways to speed things up: 1. Let’s make the web faster (by Google): http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ 2. Implement the recommendations at WebPageTest – http://www.webpagetest.org/test http://www.webpagetest.org/test
- intregus 17y ago
  Also, install yslow for firefox: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
  - nreece 17y ago
    WebPageTest is essentially a hosted/online version of YSlow and Firebug.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  I've been playing around with webpagetest.org for the last hour or two and the results are really quite good (in other words, there were a lot of optimizations that I overlooked). For instance, here is HNs report: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090808_21KF/1/performance_optimization/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090808_21KF/1/performance_... (not sure if that link works when published), it suggests that HNs .css files do not have their cache headers set properly.
aw3c2 17y ago
Oh come on, these things come up all the time and should be common knowledge already. And even worse, this linkbait article is not mentioning deflating/gzipping text-files (html, css, js, etc).
- aw3c2 17y ago
  And now I was curious and played with their site. Optipng cut 20% off the iphone.png (originally 37 Kilobytes). But by simply using JPEG you get a file of just about 10 Kilobytes. If you want to go even further you could combine the images per row (eg http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/viewserver-small.png http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/viewserver-smal... and http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/serversnapshot-small.png http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/serversnapshot-...) and use an image map for the links. PS: You are scaling those images in the browser. That looks incredibly bad, don't do that! Very noticable on the terminal shot. ;-)
datums 17y ago
If you are not gzipping, this will give the most benefit for you efforts. Pretty bogus title. Could have easily been 100% if you had it running on your local machine. The things your mentioned are yslow recommendations.
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26 points by dmytton 17y ago

Actually, there are a few more ways to speed things up: 1. Let’s make the web faster (by Google): http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ 2. Implement the recommendations at WebPageTest – http://www.webpagetest.org/test http://www.webpagetest.org/test

intregus 17y ago
Also, install yslow for firefox: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
- nreece 17y ago
  WebPageTest is essentially a hosted/online version of YSlow and Firebug.
jacquesm 17y ago
I've been playing around with webpagetest.org for the last hour or two and the results are really quite good (in other words, there were a lot of optimizations that I overlooked). For instance, here is HNs report: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090808_21KF/1/performance_optimization/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090808_21KF/1/performance_... (not sure if that link works when published), it suggests that HNs .css files do not have their cache headers set properly.

aw3c2 17y ago

Oh come on, these things come up all the time and should be common knowledge already. And even worse, this linkbait article is not mentioning deflating/gzipping text-files (html, css, js, etc).

aw3c2 17y ago
And now I was curious and played with their site. Optipng cut 20% off the iphone.png (originally 37 Kilobytes). But by simply using JPEG you get a file of just about 10 Kilobytes. If you want to go even further you could combine the images per row (eg http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/viewserver-small.png http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/viewserver-smal... and http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/serversnapshot-small.png http://www.serverdensity.com/img/screenshots/serversnapshot-...) and use an image map for the links. PS: You are scaling those images in the browser. That looks incredibly bad, don't do that! Very noticable on the terminal shot. ;-)

datums 17y ago

If you are not gzipping, this will give the most benefit for you efforts. Pretty bogus title. Could have easily been 100% if you had it running on your local machine. The things your mentioned are yslow recommendations.

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