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2011
Navigation Timing
by Xavier Lacot
This brand new specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. When implemented, this will help track web pages frontend performance.
2010
Efficiently Rendering CSS | CSS-Tricks
by ghis & 1 other (via)
Some rules for rendering efficiently CSS : ID, class and then universal, plus other tips
2009
Browserscope
by piouPiouM & 3 others
Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers.
Performance Improvements in Browsers
by Xavier Lacot
A complete focus on web browser performance-related questions, from a lot of point of views : javascript, network, painting, caching, client-side database, etc.
2008
Upcoming Browser JavaScript Engine Benchmarks
by Xavier Lacot
Internet Explorer 7 scores an abysmal 90522ms. (...) IE8-beta2 scored at 9542ms. But, for reference, in the same virtual environment Firefox "Minefield" was still able to pull off 1873ms. So, as while still no where near as fast as the other guys, IE8 is lightyears ahead of IE7 in its javascript performance.
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
by holyver & 23 others, 1 comment
A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers (also known as origin servers) and a client or many clients, and watches requests come by, saving copies of the responses — like HTML pages, images and files (collectively known as representations) — for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again.
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by holyver & 2 others
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results.
In the case of websites, the browser can save a copy of images, stylesheets, javascript or the entire page. The next time the user needs that resource (such as a script or logo that appears on every page), the browser doesn’t have to download it again. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
Cache control header and browser cache behaviours | Inmates Are Running Asylum
by holyver
Vey useful links for cache control and browser behaviors
* Explain of cache control in detail (very nice article! ) http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-http-caching/
* The State of Browser Caching: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2006/05/11/browser_caching
* XMLHttpRequest caching: http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/cache.html
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by nhoizey & 2 others
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code
by nhoizey
If you're a frequent visitor to code.google.com for product updates and reference materials for Google APIs you're working with, you might have noticed that the page loading time (or page rendering time depending on how you see it) has reduced in varying
2007
Performance Research, Part 2: Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!
by Hieroglyphe & 4 others
This is the second in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance. You may be wondering why you’re reading a performance article on the YUI Blog. It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.
2006
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