08-16-2007, 12:52 AM
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| D-Web Analyst | | Join Date: Feb 2007
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 Re: Website Performance - Tips & Tricks
Two types of performance- There's two different ways to look at a website's performance.
- First of all there's raw server performance. How many page request can a server handle before it collapses under load and more important: how fast can it process them. On a high volume website this aspect of performance is very important because it determines how many users a machine can serve before additional server capacity is needed. This article is not about this kind of performance tuning. WordPress comes with a pretty robust caching engine built in which makes it perform as fast as it possibly can.
- The second way to look at performance is what we could call 'perceived performance'. It's the speed at which your site appears to perform to the user. Even if your server is capable of serving all files required to render your website's pages in a visitor's browser as fast as it gets, your site may still appear slow to the user. A fast pipe doesn't necessarily result in a fast website. Slow client-side performance can have a plethora of causes. There's an awful lot to gain on the front end side of the game which is what this article is about.
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