Website Development Optimization Tips
It doesn’t matter if the website you’re developing is going to be the next “My Space” or the next “Cullman Liquidation Sales” speed is critical. These are some great ways to help gain every performance boost possible.
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Use compression
Some great open-source projects are out there that help optimize each element of a site. These are all written for PHP.
CSS: csstidy, cssmin
JS: jsmin
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Test page load
Using browser plugins to test the page load speed. Discover what is slowing things down.
Firebug - Great tool for lots of reasons
Page Speed - Google’s take at page testing -
Switch to jQuery
The reasons are obvious. Its faster. Much faster then all the “other guys”.
Get jQuery
JS Library Speed Comparison -
Make nice with the DB
Poorly written database querys will cause a bottleneck on any site with a large number of records.
How-to of MySQL Optimization. This site makes up in content what it lacks in design.
