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List of Web Perf Resources for
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- Enable gzip - HTML 5 Server Configs has examples for 1 & 3 (perhaps 2) - https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs | |
- Enable keep-alive | |
- Set explict cache-lifetime | |
- Optimise images i.e. pick an appropriate format and run through tools like ImageOptim, JpegMini etc. | |
- Get a build process that minifies CSS & JS, and can combined multiple files together where appropriate | |
- Consider dataURIs or CSS sprites to reduce the number of requests for small images | |
- depending of where audience is consider a CDN (latency is the enemy in all of this | |
- Learn to measure performance using tools like WebPageTest.org (measuring and understanding waterfalls is more important the scores IMV) | |
Some things to read to get started: | |
http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/front-end-performance-for-web-designers-and-front-end-developers/ | |
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rules_intro?hl=fr-FR&csw=1 | |
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2510122 | |
Steve Souders books are well worth a read, particularly the first | |
- High Performance Web Sites | |
- Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers | |
I also wrote this but it's not free - http://www.fivesimplesteps.com/products/web-performance | |
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