Tag Archives: Performance

Compress JavaScript and CSS as Part of your Build Process

Web page performance is critical to keeping customers and visitors moving along on your site. Slow responses typically result in frustrated users, unhappy customers and worse, abandoned orders. It is important to reduce the number of requests generated by a web page in order to increase its actual and perceived performance. Continue reading

Persistent Storage for Web Apps

Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps. Continue reading

Image Optimization, AlphaImageLoader

This article, part 5 of a series on image optimization, talks about the use of transparent PNGs with IE6 and why the AlphaImageLoader hack is bad and a very interesting solution This installment of the image optimization series is about … Continue reading

Ext-JS to Provide Free CDN Hosting for its Framework

This is great news for the Ext-JS community. Here is why you should take advantage of a content delivery network. We are pleased to announce that Ext has partnered with CacheFly, a global content network, to provide free CDN hosting … Continue reading

Steve Souders Releases Hammerhead, Firebug Extension

Improving performance starts with metrics. How long does it take for the page to load? Seems like a simple question to answer, but gathering accurate measurements can be a challenge. Enter Hammerhead, Steve Sounder’s latest Firebug extension. Continue reading