Ioannis Cherouvim, a software engineer from Greece, sent me this photo:
He took Even Faster Web Sites with him on his vacation to Skiathos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. In his email, Ioannis mentioned that applying the tips from my previous book to the newspaper web site Eleftherotypia (“free press” in Greek) saved “10GB traffic per day which really made a difference in our datacenter bill.” In addition, the users of the site got a better user experience.
Improved web performance and views of the Aegean Sea from the shores of a Greek island – now that’s heaven. Thanks, Ioannis – you made my day!
Eyal | 09-Sep-09 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
You had a spelling mistake there. It’s not a Greek island – it’s a Geek island.
Bogdan Nedelcu | 21-Sep-09 at 3:46 am | Permalink
This is a great picture, especially because is a real one.
Mircea Piturca | 16-Oct-09 at 2:27 pm | Permalink
enet.gr – Eleftherotypia site is still very unoptimized. They got a score of 54 on the index page, no expires headers, no gzip, lots of requests, no CDN. Probably another 10GB should be saved if he would followed all the steps…
Anyway, I love your work. Thanx for sharing with us.
Ioannis Cherouvim | 06-Jan-10 at 12:23 am | Permalink
@Mircea Piturca: Most of the stuff you refer to comes from third party adservers so we don’t have any control on how they do things.