Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
3 Aug 2007So, a colleague of mine told me about the YSlow plugin for Firebug yesterday. I had a look at it and it does do an amazing job of analyzing Web pages according to Steve Souders performance rules.
The only hitch in the get-along: a number of pages I visited when the plugin was activated were effectively unusable [...]
A little-used or discussed feature of PHP is the ability to compress output from the scripts using GZIP for more efficient transfer to requesting clients. By automatically detecting the ability of the requesting clients to accept and interpret GZIP encoded HTML, PHP4 can decrease the size of files transferred to the client by 60% to [...]