Framework, Web Client, Web Performance
As part of my Mootools lecture at Codecamp I showed a brief speed comparison between the most used Javascript Frameworks running in the major browsers. Now as the Mootools team has extended their performance test tool (slickspeed) it is time to revise my benchmarks and extend them over more browser/platforms.
Test results (Lower is better):
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You can check the actual numbers (in ms) and the full browsers information in the table bellow:
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Full article: http://blog.creonfx.com
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Web Performance, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
My blog often has fits of sucktacular performance. After digging around, and bugging DreamHost support for some ideas, I’ve made some progress.
I had been running wp-cache to enable file-based caching, thinking that would help optimize performance of the site (fewer database calls should equal better performance) - except that DreamHost apparently uses NFS-mounted storage for accounts. As a result, filesystem access is a bit laggy, so the file-based caching was actually (apparently) slowing the site down (as suggested by 4+1 ways to speed up wordpress). Disabled wp-cache and set define('WP_CACHE', false); in wp-config.php
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Full article: http://www.darcynorman.net
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Django, Framework, Graphics, Web Performance
I’m working on the next post in my series exploring Django, social networking applications and related technologies and issues. That post is going to focus on basic user authentication and account management and take an introductory look at the django-registration contribution, and so, the post should also have more general applicability..
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The basic Zoomify Image software works pretty solidly as it is, although it still has some notable shortcomings. Performance is still a major issue for multi-Gigabyte images, and of course, this software will always be somewhat slower and less scalable than the official Zoomify Inc. software, which is written in C. Using modern hardware with a lot of memory and using the most current version of Python are easy ways to squeeze out a little more performance. On the software side, I want to eventually add the ability to plug in third party image processing libraries, and in particular, I want to write a plugin that uses ImageMagick, which I believe may be a better fit for this software and increase its speed and ability to handle larger images.
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Full article: http://www.stonemind.net
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Ajax, Web 2.0, Web Performance
In this article I’ll be explaining the concept behind content encoding and discussing how this issue relates to web 2.0 web and AJAX sites. Next, I’ll be showing some examples of web 2.0 sites that are using this technology and those that are not. I will also do some simple tests with a few of the sites that are not currently using HTTP compression, to show what the benefits would be. Finally, I will give you all the resources you need to need to implement content encoding on your own website.
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Full article: http://www.maxkiesler.com
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Web Performance, Web based Application
I found these informative links in my research into high performance web application platform and thought you might find them useful as well.
To start off, A Comparison of Portable Dynamic Web Content Technologies for the Apache Server provides good overview of the choices. I think its numbers for Java Servlets are somewhat off, but not enough to affect the conclusions. FastCGI + Perl was the clear winner in the paper, followed by mod_perl. Only surprise was the poor performance of PHP. mod_python was not test unfortunately.
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Full article: http://www.docuverse.com
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Ajax, Web Performance
Omar AL Zabir, the co-founder & CTO of Pageflakes has written about a continuous streaming Ajax proxy that solves the common problem that all Ajax proxies have, the double delay in downloading content on server first and then delivering to the browser.
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Full article: http://www.sinidaily.com/2008/04/29/fast-streaming-ajax-proxy/
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Framework, Ruby on Rails, Web Performance
Everyone knows how good “Ruby on Rails” is from the point of view of developing, maintaining and deploying applications easily and quickly. But the one question that every one seems to be asking “Is “Ruby on Rails” scalable?”..
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These are some tips that can help increase the performance of your application. With this you should be able to at least improve the performance for you application 25 fold.
*mod_ruby*
When you use ruby in cgi mode the interpreter is loaded every time a request is made..
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Full article: http://www.hyperionreactor.net/node/16
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Web Articles for Dummies, Web Performance
Images, graphic and flash animation
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You can reduce image size by reducing the quality, for instance with Jogs even a compressed image will still display fine for the web.
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Web page code
Check your code and make sure that it is efficient and well written. If you have any comments in your code then take these out..
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Full article: http://7thday.homelinux.org
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Web Performance, Web based Application
When designing the architecture for a web application, it is normally desirable to design every aspect of the system to be as scalable as possible. It’s only too often that badly designed apps have need to be completely refactored before any further development work can be done, entirely due to an unscalable architecture..
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The question it raises, however, is where do we stop? At what point does multiple levels of abstraction stop saving development time and start taking its toll on performance?
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Full article: http://allinthehead.com/retro/213/scalability-vs-performance
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CMS, Drupal, Maintenance Web, Web Performance
Tuning APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to work with Drupal is a relatively painless process. As Dries Buytaert has noted, APC can help serve Drupal pages up to 4 times faster than a stock Apache and PHP setup.
However, tuning APC for use with more than one Drupal instance can be a little bit more challenging than a single site running on it’s own server.
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Full article: http://www.openject.com/blog/drupal-php-and-apc
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Indexed in April 2008
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