Wednesday, May 8, 2019
I am very keen on pushing the limits of performance, especially as a way of teaching myself ways to be able to improve application performance (albeit this is a static HTML page load with some JavaScript). My aim was to be able to load pages from https://www.willhallonline.co.uk and https://www.motnearme.co.uk in less that a second (on a reasonable connection), globally.
Background I rebuilt this site between 1 year and 4 months ago using Hugo. ...
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015
Performance is important in all aspects of life, and none more than business.
Oxford Dictionaries define performance as “A task or operation seen in terms of how successfully it is performed”
and this should be applied to every aspect of your business, including your website.
When it comes to performance metrics there are some key statistics you should be measuring on your website including page load speed, page size and number of requests. ...
Friday, Apr 17, 2015
Performance is one of our key goals in any web project. It’s also something we think we’re pretty good at, and we use it as a selling point for our services. However, it can be something that’s tricky to measure objectively, despite the fact that it’s almost universally acknowledged that page load speed is one of the most significant drivers of user satisfaction (see this nice infographic by Kissmetrics).
Page load speed, of course, can vary enormously even for a single page depending on factors such as the device and browser used, the location of the user and server, caching performance and the amount of traffic on the server, to name a few. ...
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