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ach of these companies has something interesting to offer. Some are already established products, some have received further funding, and others are still getting all of their features built and are looking to expand. Regardless, we wanted to highlight them all so you can see what the future of Facebook ... Read More

The Domain Name System (DNS) maps hostnames to IP addresses, just as phonebooks map people's names to their phone numbers. When you type www.yahoo.com into your browser, a DNS resolver contacted by the browser returns that server's IP address. DNS has a cost. It typically takes 20-120 milliseconds for DNS ... Read More

The time it takes to transfer an HTTP request and response across the network can be significantly reduced by decisions made by front-end engineers. It's true that the end-user's bandwidth speed, Internet service provider, proximity to peering exchange points, etc. are beyond the control of the development team. But there ... Read More

There are two things in this rule: For static components: implement "Never expire" policy by setting far future Expires header For dynamic components: use an appropriate Cache-Control header to help the browser with conditional requests Web page designs are getting richer and richer, which means more scripts, stylesheets, images, and Flash in the page. A ... Read More

The user's proximity to your web server has an impact on response times. Deploying your content across multiple, geographically dispersed servers will make your pages load faster from the user's perspective. But where should you start? As a first step to implementing geographically dispersed content, don't attempt to redesign your web ... Read More

80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This ... Read More

Minimize HTTP Requests tag: content 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render ... Read More

What is AJAX? If there is anything about the current interaction design that we can state as ‘fascinating’, it has to be an Ajax application. Ajax is a dramatic departure from the traditional page-based model, which requires an entire Web page to be reloaded for the information to be communicated between ... Read More