Web Application Performance

Web Application Performance Tips

Web Application performance was the big question for the programmers and system administrators now technology is changing very fast. So now size of data increases day by day like facebook and google have billion of traffic with petabytes of data they are serving in milli seconds. So it is difficult to do? No there are [...]

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

The Open source OWASP( Open Web Application Security Project) is a non revenue dependent worldwide charity organization, concentrating on the improvement of web application security. Their particular mission is to highlight the application security mechanism in every way possible, so that people and organizations can be informed regarding original application security risks and their solutions. [...]

Importance of Website Performance in SEO

Before I tell you how website performance effect in SEO it is important to understand about Website performance. How do we measure the website performance? We characterize performance in three areas listed below

Twitter’s Database FlockDB

Introduction Twitter build the flockdb which is open source used in the distributed environment, it is also called the fault-tolerant graph database. It is used to manage the data huge amount of data on web environment. Twitter is using this database to manage the relationships of users like how is following whom and stores the [...]

CSS Optimization Tips: Use Descendant Selectors

Another good idea to have an optimized css architecture is to avoid hard coding css classes into elements. This allow easy migration to a new theme and reduce code size in document.

CSS Optimization Tips: Remove Inline Definations

There are two ways a CSS style can be applied to a HTML element. One is to apply style by defining it in css file or <style> block. Second one is to provide style definition directly into “style” tag of an element, called inline style definition.

Web Application Performance: Google Analytics Script

Google Analytics (GA) script have become almost a must have part of a page. GA provides JavaScript code snippet to be placed on page. Today I will discuss few ways which will minimize the impact of GA on performance. First we will see how GA script impacts the performance. External Script: Means it will add [...]

Web Application Performance: How costly an image can be?

Did you ever think how a single image can hurt your page load time. Well if ensured that image is added in pure unoptimized way, its can hurt a lot. I recently experienced such an incident where an image was added. The image was visible at every page of the website. The issues with the [...]

Web Server Performance: Rotate Apache Access Logs on Windows

Apache web access logs provide vital information about visits, visitors and requests served by Apache web server. Each request is logged by the web server so the log file size can increase at high speed. If the log file size is small it is easy for apache to append lines. On other hand as the [...]

Web Application Performance: JavaScript Placement

JavaScript files have become important part of most of the web. Placement of js file can play important role in front end performance. If you care about performance for you visitors, you must place JavaScript files properly. Browsers allow parallel connections to a single hostname. This allows files to download faster in parallel and very [...]