Optimizing Page Load Time

October 30th, 2006 19:16 in Development, Tech by Jon

I came across an interesting article today (via Slashdot) entitled Optimizing Page Load Time written by Aaron Hopkins a Software Engineer for Google.

He’s put together quite an interesting study on how to improve the load time of a web page, using a variety of methods, covering everything from the obvious “Load fewer external objects”, to using HTTP Pipelining at the browser end.

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My New Home…

October 26th, 2006 18:12 in Everything Else by Jon

Well after far too long I’ve decided I should resurrect this blog. I’ve been trying out a few different blogging platforms and I’ve decided to use WordPress for a while. So far so good! It has some nice features (like being able to create stand alone pages that aren’t blog posts), and the interface is nice and pretty well thought out, so if all goes well then I’ll keep using it and posting more often, so subscribe to the RSS feed…

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