| By Hovhannes Avoyan |
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| February 5, 2013 09:00 AM EST |
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This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care.
Author: Ashutosh KS.
When there is content to post and no team to make it happen, many of us turn to WordPress to take care of the backend details. Themes, plugins, and other customisation tools abound, and we can lose hours checking them all out. At some point esthetics should take a backseat to performance improvement. And there is a plugin for that. In fact, there are quite a few! Ashutosh covers 9 different WordPress plugins that will help speed your site.
Author: Eugene Zhang.
Akamai is adding an interesting new tool to help speed up mobile access. Acknowledging the impact that latency has on the mobile browsing experience due to TCP having been designed for wired networks, they have deployed multiplexers at the edge of mobile access. This allows concurrent HTTP sessions to run in one TCP stream. Essentially, the mobile requests are bundled up and sent out in one session which the multiplexer unpacks and ships out the wire.
Author: Joshua Bixby.
If you are new to the scene, or in the mood for a comprehensive refresher, or maybe you’d simply like to know if you’ve considered all the angles, Joshua Bixby has assembled a tremendous list of web performance links for you. These 22 pages begin at the idea of web sites, a manifesto, and goes on to explore Essentials, Basics, Mobile, Responsive Web Design, … oh you don’t need the whole list here. Go on over and see what your competition is missing.
Author: Warren Gaebel.
Have you ever thought a site was slow as you saw the text jump around while the page renders and formats? Had that site ordered it’s component loading differently, you may have thought it much faster, even if it actually took the same amount of time to be fully loaded. This phenomenon is explored by Warren in his insightful article about the importance of making a page perceived to be as fast as possible. Ordering of loaded components is just the beginning, he also gets into the mind of the person browsing and gives tips on how to deal with expected delays.
Author: Steve Souders.
Sometimes you have a fairly complicated page to load, and it just can’t be trimmed. In the limited scope of PHP on Apache, the flush command can be used to show above the fold part of the page much more quickly, while the remainder is loading. Steve Souders details how he used this tool to speed up presentation of HTTP Archives pages.
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Hovhannes Avoyan is the CEO of Monitis, Inc., a provider of on-demand systems management and monitoring software to 50,000 users spanning small businesses and Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to Monitis, he served as General Manager and Director of Development at prominent web portal Lycos Europe, where he grew the Lycos Armenia group from 30 people to over 200, making it the company's largest development center. Prior to Lycos, Avoyan was VP of Technology at Brience, Inc. (based in San Francisco and acquired by Syniverse), which delivered mobile internet content solutions to companies like Cisco, Ingram Micro, Washington Mutual, Wyndham Hotels , T-Mobile , and CNN. Prior to that, he served as the founder and CEO of CEDIT ltd., which was acquired by Brience. A 24 year veteran of the software industry, he also runs Sourcio cjsc, an IT consulting company and startup incubator specializing in web 2.0 products and open-source technologies.
Hovhannes is a senior lecturer at the American Univeristy of Armenia and has been a visiting lecturer at San Francisco State University. He is a graduate of Bertelsmann University.
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