Shropgeek Rebellion - Web performance improvements you can make in one hour. Supplementary code, links and notes. Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/beneverard/shropgeek-rebellion-web-performance-improvements-in-one-hour

caching.apacheconfig

# CACHING

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive On
	ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/richtext "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>

gzip.apacheconfig

# GZIP COMPRESSION

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>

research

TCP Segmentation
HTML5 async - http://davidwalsh.name/html5-async

Designers: Percieved performance
Front-end developers: CSS + JavaScript efficiency
Back-end developers: Varnish - https://www.varnish-cache.org

**Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views**
http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views

shoutouts

Andy Davies - http://andydavies.me/
Steve Souders - http://stevesouders.com/

tools

**Measuring / Benchmarking**
Google PageSpeed
Yahoo YSlow
WebPagetest
Slowy App
JSPerf
Google Chrome Dev Tools
Firebug (for Firefox et al)

**Optimisation**
CodeKit
Mixture
ImageOptime
W3TC (for WordPress)
Google PageSpeed module (for Apache and nginx)