A few days ago, I gave you my JavaScript test harness. I created it so I could evaluate some of the performance options that were listed in Website Performance: JavaScript. As promised, here is the same test harness ported over to PHP. [I hope you don’t laugh at me when I tell you I spent […]

Most people and businesses pay attention to what they think are a few important features when picking a web-hosting service. First there’s price, which, more than ever, seems a major consideration these days. Another consideration are features that the service provides, for example, data storage and bandwidth capacity. Businesses also want the comfort of support […]

In today’s competitive business climate the name of the game is getting your brand, products, and services in front of as many prospects as possible. Websites and social media presence alone are not going to cut it. To really maximize your returns you’re going to need to venture into email marketing. Email marketing involves using […]

The World-Wide Web offers more PHP performance tips than can be comfortably discussed in one article, so the following is merely a list that can be used for reference purposes. The tips are divided into categories to group similar things together and make it easier to find what we need. The author’s search for tips […]

NoSQL is a technical term that means either “No SQL” or “Not only SQL” and represents a paradigm shift away from sole reliance on relational databases. Relational databases (RDMS) emerged in the 1970s and were based on a set of data tables that could be queried and matched based on languages like SQL. These database […]

In today’s competitive business climate the name of the game is getting your brand, products, and services in front of as many prospects as possible. Websites and social media presence alone are not going to cut it. To really maximize your returns you’re going to need to venture into email marketing. Email marketing involves using […]

With a growing number of various browsers and their versions, making website look consistent for everyone is an impossible task. Some startups even dump some browsers for the sake of saving time and money on making the websites compatible for different browsers. While this approach has yet to be proven as successful, the majority of […]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article continues the discussion of the journey-from-the-client-to-the-servercategory by examining what DNS lookups do to that journey. DNS Lookups Are Automatic When the user’s browser requests a web page from the server, it first […]