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International PHP Magazine: IPM Poll Question: How to Speed up Your Site?

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:27:06 -0500

The International PHP Magazine has posted the results of their latest poll today, asking the question "what's the best way to speed up your site?"

Options included:

Reduce overall latency by reducing HTTP requests
Save your images properly
Strip extraneous PHP calls

With the option of "Miscellaneous thoughts" coming in at the number one place. The next step down was a tie between "Save your images properly" and "Reduce overall latency by reducing HTTP requests" with "Compression" following close behind.

Be sure to cast your vote in this week's poll asking "What is the Top Criterion for Scaling PHP?"

Paul Stamatiou's Blog: 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:31:06 -0500

Paul Stamatiou shares with us today five ways to speed up your site, some quick and easy recommendations to making your site fly.

Throughout the blogosphere I'm always seeing these blogs, that while they look great, are horribly slow and overburdened. Over the past few months I have become somewhat of a website optimization specialist, bringing my own site from an over 250kB homepage to its current 34kB.

I will help you achieve some of the same success with a few, powerful tips. Most of these are common sense, but I can't stress their importance enough. I will concentrate on the website and not the server in this article, as there are too many things to discuss when it comes to server optimization.

The five tips mentioned include "Reduce Overall Latency by Reducing HTTP Requests" and "Compression", each with a paragraph or so of explaination as to what it is and how to implement it. There's even a PHP-specific one that talks about a paring down of the bits of functionality that really aren't needed.

Derick Rethans' Blog: London Conference

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:37:32 -0600

In Derick Rethans' latest post, he talks about some of his experiences at the PHP Conference UK for this year.

Last Friday I spoke at the PHP UK Conference in London on the eZ components. (Presentation slides as as usual on the talks page). I enjoyed this conference, which was organized by the PHP London User Group. This was their first conference, and the organizers did an excellent job. I always enjoy going to a conference for users (as opposed to business conferences) so much more.

He mentions the talk from Harry Fuecks on Ajax and Latency and the webcast he's doing this Friday with php|architect on the eZ components framework.