Building A Better Site
| Thursday, July 12th, 2007 | --jr |
(Thank you Sean for covering for me yesterday. The time stamp on this should give you a bit of an idea how swamped I was...)
Over on the Y!Developer Network Blog, Site optimization genius and all around smart guy Steve Souders has been posting rules on how to make High Performance web sites. Let me point out that good Mr. Souders is one of the architects of choice here at Yahoo! and has a long history of putting together pages that get hit thousands of times a second without cracking a sweat or causing a server to catch fire. He knows from whence he speaks, and the fact that he's happily sharing his vast accumulated knowledge speaks wonders of the guy.
Even if you have a small website running on an older machine, there's a lot of simple steps you can take to really make your pages fast and nimble. Simple things like putting your CSS definitions at the top of the page, but your javascript at the bottom make a huge difference to your customers.
Go on, spend a few minutes to save yourself a lot of headaches.
Me? Well, now that one rather annoying bug has been put to bed, I'm off as well. Just in time to get up in four hours. whee.