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Page load time digression  |  (2006/11/20 18:38)

This has almost nothing to do with security, though I suppose you could say it helps with DOS resistance, but is interesting none the less. A couple of weeks ago, Slashdot featured a rather self serving article from Akamai that said that web surfers would only tolerate a 4 second load time for web pages. Ignoring the fact that Akamai makes huge amounts of money on web site caching, the question of optimizing page load occupied me for a couple of hours since I thought I'd speed up page load time for my photography web site. One good resource was Aaron Hopkins page on speeding up page load time I also found a few good firefox plugins, like LORI, which shows page load time in your Firefox status bar. It also turns out that the Tamper Data extension, which may already use, has a really neat feature that graphs page loads. This feature isn't obvious, but Simon Willison has a page that describes it. Also helpful was the WebSiteOptimization.com Web Page Analyzer

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