HTTPS with compression considered harmful?
I recently learnt about a security exploit that can occur when pages served over HTTPS use HTTP compression. Secure or fast, pick one?
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Tagged ‘web_performance’ (5 posts)
Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers
Harry Roberts:
It’s hard, if not impossible, to deny that performance is by far one of the most critical aspects of any decent web project, be it a small portfolio site, a mobile-first web app, right through to a full-scale e-commerce project. Studies, articles and personal experience all tell us that fast is best.
If you’re a web developer (or designer) read this. Now.
Trimming even more fat
The Christmas break provides the time to tie up loose ends and make much needed progress on personal projects. At least, that was the plan. Once again I find myself distracted by the task of making this website just that little bit faster.
Trimming the fat
Website optimisation can be a cruel game; everything has a number that begs to be reduced, but doing so requires a lot of experimentation, research and testing. And when you’re playing with the last hundred or so kilobytes, there’s little reward for your effort.
Highly optimized images for the web in 3 steps
Pascal Altena:
In this article, I’ll cover the techniques I use to make images load fast on a webpage.
A beautifully succinct yet informative article that begs to printed out and stuck on the wall next to every web developer.