In the two previous posts, I’ve covered different plugins for Firefox. Even though web developers still seem to prefer Firefox over Chrome, a lot of us (me inclusive) switched to Chrome. Luckily Google does a pretty decent performance optimization extension for Chrome as well. The extension is Google Speed…
Page Speed is a plug-in developed for Firebug by Google. If you don’t use Firebug, get it (http://getfirebug.com/)! It’s the coolest web developer plug-in for Firefox out there. The Page Speed tool is downloaded from http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html. Google Page Speed…
[http://performancedude.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/yslow_overview.png]The first tool that you should definitely check out is YSlow from Yahoo. YSlow is a plug-in for Firebug, which is a must-have for all web developers. You can find the Firebug plug-in here: http://getfirebug.com/ and the YSlow…
So how do you spot if your site has performance issues or not? You probably have an idea if your site is responsive or not, but how does it compare to other sites, and which potential problems do you have? This is a starter’s guide to some of the…
So why do I need to think about the performance of my website, you might think. Well, maybe you don’t. If you’re making a niche website, which exports a large data set to XML, the user probably doesn’t mind if the transaction spans four or ten seconds.…
Hi and welcome to my new blog. During my years as a professional software developer, I’ve learned a thing or two about performance-optimizing software applications (both desktop and web applications). I’ve studied a lot of blog posts in order to solve different performance-related problems. This blog is my…