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Re: 'Waiting for server response' and flush()

Patrick Meenan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:19 GMT

The browsers will all make multiple connections with persistent connections enabled. If everything is served from a single domain (like with most sites on

Re: 'Waiting for server response' and flush()

Philip Tellis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:19:05 GMT

keep-alive can be good or bad depending on your situation. This is the apache doc about it: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/keepalive.html The idea is that

YSlow + JSLint

lercherch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:54:46 GMT

Hi, the JSLint tool in YSlow doesn't work for me. It just displays a (Untitled) page with the content "undefined". - Tried it on several (quite different)

Re: 'Waiting for server response' and flush()

GT — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:57:15 GMT

Hi again, Interesting development (and solution to the strange login redirect). It turned out that a plugin (which shall remaion nameless) was causing the

Re: YSlow and Wordpress plugins

Sergey Chernyshev — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:45:11 GMT

Unfortunately, it's not always that easy to move code down below, but i agree, that better handling of JavaScript is a good idea for many open source projects

YSlow and Wordpress plugins

GT — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:57:59 GMT

Hi y'all. When I run YSlow/FireBug on my Wordpress-CMS driven site, I get a 'bad grade' (a 'B') for "Put javascript at bottom"; the offending javascript is

Re: 'Waiting for server response' and flush()

GT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:10 GMT

Thanks for your response, Pat. I tried running a test of that sort some days ago, but for some odd reason my site redirected to a login page. The same thing

Re: 'Waiting for server response' and flush()

Patrick Meenan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:11:28 GMT

I did a bulk analysis a few months ago at all of the tests that had been submitted to WebPagetest here (24k unique urls):

'Waiting for server response' and flush()

GT — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:57:46 GMT

Hey y'all My site's performance has benefited greatly from YSlow and the various hints: the next step for me is to try to combine images into sprites... I was

Re: Best way to bundle CSS and JS?

GT — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:19:58 GMT

Hi there Bill, I've found that my pages are quicker if I conditionally include js files at the time the page is delivered. I use WordPress as a CMS, and insert

NEW FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition 0.3 available

grabnerandi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:22:16 GMT

Hi to all client side performance gurus out there In case you are looking for a JavaScript & DOM tracing, Network and Rendering Times Analysis in IE6, 7 and 8

Re: Why did you essentially kill Smush.it

Phil — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:26 GMT

I agree totally with hanooter, the OP. smush.it was a brilliant tool when web developers could upload a bunch of files directly from their computer to smush.it

Re: Include JS and CSS files directly with PHP

Sergey Chernyshev — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:03:26 GMT

Good approach is to mark a user with the cookie when they get external CSS / JS post-loaded into cache (with infinite expiration) so next time you don't have

Re: West Coast WebPagetest now available

Steve Souders — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:27:36 GMT

so cool Way to go, Pat!

West Coast WebPagetest now available

pmeenan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:05:38 GMT

Big thanks to Strangeloop Networks who is providing the test system - testing is now available from San Jose on