2010
Optimizing javascript/jQuery loading time, a beginner’s guide
"With LABjs you can load your js files completely asynchronous."
Best practices performance – does it matter? | Speeding Up Website: all about web performance
"There is no valid reason to integrate to your website extreme performance best practices. You can just apply some basics and advanced techniques, and stop with this."
2009
ImageOptim - a PNG/JPEG graphics optimizer for Mac OS X
by 2 others"ImageOptim is a front-end (GUI) for set of tools for optimisation of PNG/JPEG images and GIF animations. Optimisation makes files smaller (in terms of disk space) by finding optimal compression parameters and by removing unneccessary information, like file comments, EXIF tags and color profiles."
Web Performance Best Practices
by 1 otherWhen you profile a web page with Page Speed, it evaluates the page's conformance to a number of different rules. These rules are general front-end best practices you can apply at any stage of web development. We provide documentation of each of the rules here
Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz
by 3 othersEvery two years, SEOmoz surveys top SEO experts in the field worldwide on their opinions of the algorithmic elements that comprise search engine rankings.
punypng - PNG Image Optimization and Compression - Gracepoint After Five
by 7 otherspunypng is a free optimization service that can dramatically reduce the file size of an image by converting it into a highly-compressed, lossless PNG image. Whether you have a GIF, JPEG or PNG, use punypng for outrageously fast page loads and help make the web more puny!
Page Speed Home
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
2008
2007
Ajaxian » CSS Sprite Generator Released
CSS Sprite is a single image file which contains several graphics. Using CSS background positions it’s possible to display any one of the graphics. By using a sprite you save on multiple http requests which helps speed up the rendering of your page.
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