Caching. It can be done on almost everything. File systems, databases and websites, to name a few.
In the ever faster and ever more dynamic internet world it might seem that caching would eliminate dynamic content. It does not. Caching is very useful in lowering the amount of requests and could potentially save you and your client a lot of time and/or bandwidth. Read more…
Minification is a subject which comes from my heart. In this article I will talk about reducing the amount of requests to let your sites load faster.
As I wrote in my previous article minification can lead to a 90% decline in the time it takes to load a page on a clients computer. One of the main points to get this speed-up from is by cutting in the amount of requests a client needs to execute to load the total page. Ideally we should get this down to under 10 requests, however, that might not always be possible.
Minification is the art of making a website as small as possible. Not onscreen but in the amount of data needed to be transferred between the webserver and the client.
You might think this is not as important nowadays as it was back in the days when we still used 14k4 modems but you’d be wrong. Minification is more important than ever. Read more…