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Beyond YSlow - Squeeeezing out website network performance(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunttroyhunt(831) 5 months, 19 days ago

How much improvement can be made on an already well-optimised site, I mean one that scores very well against existing performance yardsticks? How much faster can you go without spending dollars on a CDN? Turns out there are big gains to be made very quickly – and it costs just a tiny bit of development time.

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posted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 5 months, 19 days ago 0

Good article, there's always more to optimization than "let's use a cdn". I wonder if your sprite still would have reduced site load times by a significant amount even before being run through smush.it? Did you happen to test that?

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posted by troyhunttroyhunt(831) 5 months, 17 days ago 0

Oh yeah, there's still plenty of advantage without the Smushing. This saved me 5.19KB so even at 100KB/s (a slow connection for most people), it would only add about 5ms pre-Smush. I was just being ultra-pedantic :)

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