#optimisation
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Rails Database Best Practices
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Essential Image Optimization
eBook on image optimisation strategies for websites in 2017. -
traintimes.org.uk performance notes
How Train Times keeps its service nippy -
10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world
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TinyPNG
Compress PNG images while preserving transparency -
ImageAlpha
ImageAlpha converts 24-bit PNG to paletted 8-bit with full alpha channel. This greately reduces file sizes with only minor... -
Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform
Commentary on how they optimised conversion and reduced page load times. Backed by Jekyll and S3/Akamai hosting. -
Book of Speed
Free, in-progress book on site performance and optimisation -
Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS
Squeeze more performance out of a VPS - worthwhile tips and advice even if you have a bigger server -
Site speed affects search ranking
Google: “we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings”Categories
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Google Analytics goes async
Needs a change to the Javascript and then its tracking code is loaded asynchronouslyCategories
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31 Conversion Optimization Tips – and Counting
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Jet Profiler for MySQL
Java desktop MySQL profiler using native commands such as SHOW PROCESSLISTCategories
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Documents about MySQL query optimization
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Free Ruby on Rails application profiling for developers - FiveRuns TuneUp
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PNGpong
Dashboard widget that optimises PNGs through pngcrush and optipngCategories
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Preload images referenced in a stylesheet
Uses Prototype to pull out all CSS images and preload themCategories
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The PHP Benchmark
Advice and best practices for PHP operations, such as looping over a hashCategories
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Yahoo!'s Latest Performance Breakthroughs
More recommendations over and above YSlow -
Automatically Version Your CSS and JavaScript Files
Tip for rewriting URLs to CSS/JS to promote client-side cachingCategories