December 2010
Asynchronous and deferred JavaScript execution explained « Peter Beverloo
Enfin un schéma simple montrant la différence entre async, defer et rien
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
Let's make the web faster - Google Code
"Here are some statistics about the size, number of resources and other such metrics of pages on the world wide web. These are collected from a sample of several billions of pages that are processed as part of Google's crawl and indexing pipeline."
Optimizing javascript/jQuery loading time, a beginner’s guide
"With LABjs you can load your js files completely asynchronous."
August 2010
July 2010
this, is boomerang
"boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view"
June 2010
High Performance Web Sites :: Frontend SPOF
"loading scripts and stylesheets in the typical way creates a frontend single point of failure that can bring down the entire site"
April 2010
March 2010
META Refresh Nullifies Caching for IE6 and IE7 « Lickity Split
"When a site uses a <META> refresh tag to send the visitor to a URL, IE6 and IE7 treat that as if the user had clicked the “Refresh” or “Reload” button on the browser."
February 2010
Best practices performance – does it matter? | Speeding Up Website: all about web performance
"There is no valid reason to integrate to your website extreme performance best practices. You can just apply some basics and advanced techniques, and stop with this."
January 2010
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? « Lickity Split
"JavaScript Library CDNs use the network effect. Our survey of the Alexa 2000 shows that right now there are too few people in the network to get any value. Only Google’s AJAX Library API has anywhere near the penetration to provide any benefit"
November 2009
ImageOptim - a PNG/JPEG graphics optimizer for Mac OS X
by 2 others"ImageOptim is a front-end (GUI) for set of tools for optimisation of PNG/JPEG images and GIF animations. Optimisation makes files smaller (in terms of disk space) by finding optimal compression parameters and by removing unneccessary information, like file comments, EXIF tags and color profiles."
October 2009
High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face and performance
"My first piece of advice is to avoid using @font-face unless it’s critical to the page."
September 2009
Web Performance Best Practices
by 1 otherWhen you profile a web page with Page Speed, it evaluates the page's conformance to a number of different rules. These rules are general front-end best practices you can apply at any stage of web development. We provide documentation of each of the rules here
