Category Archives: Performance

JavaScript performance

Posted on January 12, 2010 by lehresman

There is an exciting trend in the browser market today. A war is being fought over JavaScript performance. The browsers each seem to be trying to outdo each other with optimizing their JavaScript engines. Firefox has drastically improved their engine … Continue reading →

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MooZoom extension for MooTools

Posted on January 8, 2010 by lehresman

Apple.com at one point had a nifty effect on their website that would zoom a thumbnail image to a full image. Many people have created JavaScript solutions to imitate this feature. The problem with existing solutions (see FancyZoom and ReMooz) is that … Continue reading →

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Amazon S3 cloud storage and content delivery networks

Posted on January 5, 2010 by lehresman

Recently, I discovered the joy of cloud storage. Cloud storage is simply an outsourced facility used to host static content on the web. Since storage is cheap, and bandwidth is getting cheaper, these hosted services are starting to become very … Continue reading →

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How to optimize images

Posted on December 30, 2009 by lehresman

In this series, I have been going through several techniques web developers can use to improve the performance of their websites.  Previously I discussed using sprite images to reduce HTTP requests during page load.  This article will show several things … Continue reading →

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Using CSS sprite images

Posted on December 28, 2009 by lehresman

Previously, I discussed how the #1 problem with slow-loading websites is often the number of separate HTTP requests, and I demonstrated the method I use to optimize requests for JavaScript and CSS.  Now lets talk about images. Images and icons … Continue reading →

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