Note: Archived ContentThis is the archived version of the Zoompf blog. Since our acquisition by Rigor, all our new research and posts on web performance are being published on The Rigor Blog
When was the last time you received, saw, or even heard of a web performance issues report that preceded or followed a bug report? Why is it that when someone reports a bug in our software, that bug gets: (1) thoroughly investigated, (2) documented, and (3) scheduled within some form or fashion of bug tracking […]
Adding support for encrypted SSL connections to a website doesn’t have to reduce the performance of your site. SSL can be properly configured so that it provides security and confidentiality, with minimal impact on the website’s page load time. In fact, SSL is a necessary step to implementing SPDY, which can actually improve the performance […]
Great Websites Are Like Formula One Race Cars Have you ever seen a formula one race car in action? These cars are closer to jet fighters than Ferraris. They gracefully wind through circuit tracks averaging three miles long, closely resembling the twists and turns of a California mountain road, along with twenty five other cars. […]
If there is one good thing about disasters it is that they tend to raise awareness and increase preparedness. For example, if I hear about a house fire, I always go and check the batteries in my smoke detectors. If a bad storm hits somewhere, I always go and test the flashlights in the house […]
As I mentioned in our How Fast Is … USPS.com video and blog post yesterday, I discovered a few TIFF files on the US Postal Service’s website. I thought a follow up post about images suitable for use on the web was in order. According to the awesome HTTP Archive, the most common image formats […]
A recent article by John Naughton has sparked a debate inside the web design and web development community. Are designers, with their image heavy designs, ruining the web? The answer is yes, but its not why you think. It’s not because designers use big images or even that they use a lot of images. It’s […]
One of the ways you can improve website performance is to reduce the amount of data that needs to get delivered to the client. An easy way to reduce the amount of data sent to a client is to compress the content and then transfer it to the client. This can be done with HTTP […]
(This is the third article in a series of articles about performance questions you should ask when choosing a hosting provider. The first article, “What control do I have over the web server?” and the second article “What access do you provide to web server logs?” are also available.) So far in this series we […]
I ran across an article today that shocked me. Geert De Deckere wrote how you can save an HTTP request by combining the CSS files for the print and screen media types. Wait, I thought. What? Why do I need to do this? What behavior is this correcting? I was very confused. Maybe you are […]
Time and time again I see people using PHP or some other application logic to try and hack around some issue they are facing. We saw this in our previous post Questions to Ask Hosting Providers: Web Server Configuration where people would use PHP to emulate mod_deflate or mod_expires. Andrew King, in his book Website […]
