I remember when I first started getting into website performance optimization, the more I dug into it, the less I seemed to know. I remember hearing of browser repaint and not knowing what reflow is, and not realizing how important either of them really are in performance optimization. I definitely didn’t have many strategies in [...]

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Well I know that JavaScript blocks anything else from downloading on the page. My strategy to lessen this effect has been to move JavaScript to the bottom of the page. After reading 12 Steps to Faster Web Pages with Visual Round Trip Analyzer, I have to question this strategy. It describes a technique for using [...]

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I have a team member experimenting with base64 encoding of images to reduce HTTP requests (that’s a mouthful). I’m not going to try to explain what this involves, but it isn’t as complex as it first sounds. You can get more info on base64 encoding on this blog post by James McCaffrey. One of the [...]

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We are working on a performance project at work. One of the marketing guys wrote a blog post for our customers that talked about improving website performance. There is a lot of talk about performance going on at the company. One of the drivers of this talk is the desire to satisfy visitors with a [...]

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I don’t know how interested you are in the tools to measure page performance, but I have been doing some research and thought I would share some of what I found. This is not a strategy for performance optimization, just a diversion I had in my daily fight in this game of milliseconds. I was [...]

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