Ca-Phun Ung
Freelance web developer and Internet consultant at Yelotofu.
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High Performance Ajax Applications
Julien Lecomte, author of the YUI Compressor gave a talk on High Performance Ajax Applications. He refers to some of the tricks we learnt from Steve Souders’ research on the 14 rules for faster-loading web sites but also gives us more insight specifically on fine tuning JavaScript to perform up a gear. I hope you [...]
14 rules for faster pages
Steve Souders, chief of Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance Team, devised 14 rules for faster pages to squeeze more zest from page performance, the rules in short are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions [...]