Tag: performance
CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering
CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering | Onextrapixel – Web Design & Development Online Magazine. In contrast to a more high level approach to organizing and implementing CSS, this article looks at the nitty gritty performance enhancements and bottlenecks you may be dealing with. Performance is always of high concern when engineering the […]
Posted: May 08, 2012
Try/Catch Error Perf
Try/Catch Error Perf · jsPerf. Performance is super important when it comes to front end engineering. I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m focusing on more involved implementations of JavaScript in prep for years of development to come and performance is one place I’d like to focus much. I’m sincerely enamored with the fine grained […]
Posted: May 04, 2012
Chrome DevTools Timeline’s new Frame Mode
Chrome DevTools Timeline's new Frame Mode – YouTube. Chrome continues to impress me, seriously impress me. Paul Irish walks through dissecting on-page animations and what you can do to avoid resource-hungry function calls.
Posted: May 04, 2012
Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub – JP’s blog
Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub – JP's blog. This is awesome and worth your time to read if you’re a front end developer. The front end space, although expanding faster than anything, is super exciting in that the problems to solve are really unique. Performance concerns can be addressed in a number of ways, […]
Posted: April 30, 2012
10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server
10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff like it. It doesn’t get much more straightforward than this. I enjoy reading articles about well optimized WordPress sites. WordPress, like any other Web app will suffer bottlenecks if not handled properly. This article helps to show […]
Posted: March 30, 2012
Productivity Versus Performance: Fighting The Good Fight
Productivity Versus Performance: Fighting The Good Fight – CodeBrief. I almost wrote this article after seeing the Backbone.js vs. Ember.js animation shootout, but I couldn’t have written it better than this, not even close. I really like the piece as a whole, but in particular the closing really sums things up: … to fundamentally criticize […]
Posted: February 23, 2012
Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading
Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading – Benchmark | Dev4Press. Working with any system comes with some inherent responsibility. Systems can be abused just as much as they’re used and it’s the abuse that tends to give a great system a terrible name. I think that happens with WordPress in certain ways. While a […]
Posted: January 10, 2012
9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
tumbledry.org: 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM. Articles like these are great perspective. Many times we read articles about servers with 400GB RAM, seven petabytes of storage, and eleven quad-core processors, but I’m most interested in maximizing performance from just about anything. Getting 9 million hits per day on a machine with 120 megs […]
Posted: August 31, 2011
How to Improve the quality of your software: find an old computer
How to Improve the quality of your software: find an old computer I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t do much testing outside my development environment. That includes my main machine and the array of virtual machines I browser test within. Honestly though, that’s not enough. With JavaScript and CSS(3) implementations getting crazier […]
Posted: August 22, 2011