#Performance

Two ways to make 10MinuteMail's home page faster, one A/B test, and an LCP number that came out identical both ways.

mod_pagespeed and CloudFlare combine to deliver faster page loads and stronger reliability.

Co-presenting on load testing and performance analytics using JMeter and New Relic at the Boston Web Performance Group Meetup, September 18th, 2012.

Ultra-premium consulting available at $1,000/hour with strict limits: prove 20%+ performance gains on your eCommerce site to justify the investment.

Apache Performance presentation at Boston Web Performance Meetup covers optimization techniques for web servers.

Benchmark test reveals rsync outpaces scp by 2-10x on file transfers - practical performance comparison for deployment workflows.

JBoss Performance Tuning book offers data-driven insights for optimizing application deployments.

Video encoding and streaming trends show how bandwidth growth, mobile, and social are reshaping online media.

Site speed impacts Google rankings now - here's why it matters and how Spark::red's hosting expertise tuned every layer.

Google's speed optimization guidelines emphasize smaller code size, but avoid over-optimizing CSS at the cost of maintainability.

IE 7's JavaScript engine runs 10x slower than Safari 4, making it painful for AJAX-heavy interfaces.

Smush.it automatically optimizes your images without Photoshop tweaking - compress files and boost web performance instantly.

CDNs boost end-user performance 20-25% while slashing server load - geographic distribution wins.

Content delivery networks serve static assets faster from servers near users, doubling perceived performance.

Images and scripts kill load time - reduce file count, leverage caching, and watch metrics plummet.

Cache HTTP headers from JBoss using servlet filters - control what browsers keep and for how long.

JSPs are bottlenecks; cache content sections to cut generation time, free up threads faster.

100ms slower = 1% sales drop (Amazon). Half-second delays tank Google traffic 20% - speed is revenue.