Comments for High Performance Web Sites

Comment on WebPagetest.org – top tool by jack powers

jack powers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:54:46 +0000

Patrick is always available to help you on the forum.

Comment on Performance of 3rd Party Content by Markus Leptien

Markus Leptien — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:21 +0000

@Griego

After looking at your apple example… Any idead why Apple sets these Response Headers:

Cneonction: close
nnCoection: close

Especially, as they set additionally set a Header

Connection: Keep-Alive

???

Comment on Performance Impact of CSS Selectors by stoimen

stoimen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:56 +0000

Whatever the gain size is, isn’t it a good practice to optimize whatever you can.

OK, it cannot be the most important part of a web site optimization process, but it doesn’t slows down the page, isn’t it!

Comment on WebPagetest.org – top tool by Vincent Voyer

Vincent Voyer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:33:47 +0000

Dummynet works very well on windows, thanks a lot, before that i was simulating trafic from server (wich was on linux so easier…)

Comment on Performance of 3rd Party Content by Chris Griego

Chris Griego — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:54:55 +0000

Clickable.com is another one to add to the list. They are an SEM analytics tool with hosted JavaScript. No gzip, inappropriate cache headers, no minification, document.write.

Comment on don’t use @import by Robocat

Robocat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:35:05 +0000

A fantastic free tool instead of HttpWatch is http://fiddlertool.com – it is a proxy for recording all activity, but it also does waterfall charts (amongst other great features!).

Comment on P3PC: Google Analytics by shawn

shawn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:59:06 +0000

It would be great to see tests on the snippets from some of the other large analytics vendors, especially Omniture. Maybe it would help them put a little more emphasis on performance. :)

Comment on P3PC: Google Analytics by Mike Dickey

Mike Dickey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:28 +0000

@Cracks: we found a problem with the 3.0.1 Mac installer and fixed it probably shortly after you downloaded. If you re-download it should work fine, but this fix should work as well:
http://pion.org/node/173

Comment on Tethering is exhilarating by Nikolaos Dimopoulos

Nikolaos Dimopoulos — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:38 +0000

By the way awesome spam catcher. It caught me once :)

Comment on Tethering is exhilarating by Nikolaos Dimopoulos

Nikolaos Dimopoulos — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:16 +0000

Steve,

It is really refreshing to read that I was not the only one that really needed tethering.

My story though was that when I called AT&T they insisted that tethering is illegal (against their TOS). I tried to tether as less as possible since my daily commute is 5 hours, 3 of which on the train. You can understand that I need tethering so that I can do some work while on the train.

After jailbreaking the iPhone and using tethering this way everything was perfect. I was using the iPhoneModem application (I had the 2G model) and was a happy camper.

When I decided to switch to Nexus One (I have documented this here: http://www.niden.net/2010/02/from-iphone-to-nexus-one-review/) I had to find a way to tether.

The Cyanogen mod (for the root access to the Nexus One) is a hit and miss. I have read a lot of posts of people that either loved it or hated it. I opted not to install that.

The tethering options were either PDANet or EasyTether. I wanted to be able to tether my notebook without any cables so PDANet won (they offer Bluetooth DUN – EasyTether is still working on it).

Even with the slow EDGE network of AT&T through the Nexus One I manage to get work done and download files that I need. It is a pain to wait since the connection is not the fastest one but it works.

[quote]+1 for tethering without jailbreaking. All smartphones should do this.[/quote]

Amen to that!