Friday, June 25, 2010

Best Practices to Enhance Web Performance

When it comes to page load time, how do web masters profile a web page? What are the different components that need to be observed in order to get a page load time to be at its minimum? What are the best practices that you follow to arrive at an optimum website performance? There are some best practices that need to be followed at each stage of the website development cycle.

This needs to be taken into account, be it a new site you are developing or could be a you are just upgrading an old site to enhance website performance. There need to be focus on details and specifics during website development. The attention to detail can help enhance user experience and finally on business benefits viz., customers. Website needs to be developed keeping in focus the following things: User experience, search engine crawl-ability, website applications and user interface, website availability, use of scripts, etc.

Some of the essentials that need to be looked at are reducing page load time, resolving DNS names, TCP connection setup, resource downloads and downloads from cache. Executing scripts, etc. The above are some of the steps that will go through in a page, but page load time needs to be evaluated on how well your page will perform along these functions together and eliminates or performs all these functions in parallel and still manages to load in the specified load time.

There are definitely methods to achieve this, which I will be adding into my next post in detail. Once the development is done, we will need to monitor website to check for performance and improvise on the same with the help of website monitoring services.

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