After several posts about data:URI and actual data:URI performance impact let’s see how this technique can affect website performance or some other sides of website consistency or website speed ..
In the prvious posts we stated that dynamic images are bad and how images (from timthumb) can be statified. Let’s speak today about dynamic CSS / JavaScript files and see what can be done here. ..
We minified and combined all JavaScript files on our website and got about 250ms gain in load speed (or 6%) and website performance. It’s not so much but JavaScript minify technique can be very ..
Let’s review our achievements for a WordPress-based website and create something like a road map to optimize WordPress performance. First priority actions Gzip of die! You must gzip all appropriate files (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ICO and Fonts). You can use here ‘on fly’ gzip ...
After we accelerated our website 3x, 5x, and even 40x let’s implement some quick tips to add more performance. Actual improvement is hard to measure, but all these tweaks should add not client side performance but reduce server side load (and improve website usability). Add favicon.ico to the...
It’s a bonus post after our we finished our WordPress optimization Stage 3. We faced troubles with a large amount of HTML images (about 20 for the home page) – and don’t have efficient solution to resolve this issue (yes, multiple hosts can fit, but every HTTP request costs for se...
Well. It’s the last post from our website performance optimization Stage 3. Now we can say for sure – it’s a fast WordPress blog! But what actual gain have we achieved with all these actions? Let’s review them. Extreme performance actions We reduced size of CSS rules. Due t...
It’s the last part of our Stage 3 optimization research. And we are going to perform some actions to remove blocking behavior of AdSense blocks (and any other advertisement as well). What is blocking JavaScript Here is a very good article from Steve Souders about how JavaScript blocks web pag...
With this small post we are going to review actual performance of using transparent blocks on your website. As you remember we installed a small WordPress plugin to track MySQL / server side generation time of every HTML page. It’s fixed to the right top corner and has a bit transparent backg...
We discussed in some previous posts what WordPress performance optimization can be achieved from simple hacks in timthumb.php library (or just thumb.php – it depends on current WordPress theme). Let’s bring them all together and review once more. What is a timthumb.php library? timthumb...
Just to remember: it’s our optimization journey Stage 3. And we are trying to extremely reduce amount of data / number of HTTP requests. We have already tried to remove unused styles, minify HTML, and use cookie-free domains. And saved about 75 Kb of data (mainly from styles). Analyzing HTTP ...
This is the third post in our website performance optimization journey Stage 3. In the previous parts we reduced data:URI (CSS) size and minified HTML. Now we are going to move all resources to cookie-free domains and somehow measure the difference. Basics Why cookie-free domains are good? Here is ...
Let’s review today such a contradictory point in website acceleration as HTML minify. It’s one of our steps to bring extreme performance to our website. And it can reduce load time not only for the first-time visitors, but also for returned ones and if readers are going to the next pos...
