Best Practices To Build Faster Websites
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
Urs Hoelzle, SVP, Operations and Bill Coughran, SVP, Engineering at Google explain the need of a community focused on sharing tips, tricks and tools necessary to improve the actual performance of existing and future websites:”We are excited to discuss what we’ve learned about web performance with the Internet community. However, to optimize the speed of web applications and make browsing the web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine, we need to work together as a community, to tackle some larger challenges that keep the web slow and prevent it from delivering its full potential.”
The tutorials section of the new Google Code website section regarding all issues related to the web applications speed, contain various intuitive articles about how to manage the main parameters which greatly influence the web sites performance, such as CSS declarations usage, gzip compression, HTTP caching, graphics optimization, the prefetching of resources and more.
Also, speed related issues are covered in comprehensive YouTube videos. They will allow you to keep tracking of the latest web development news about a broad range of website speed influencing factors.
A precious suggestion for webmasters, as well as a general rule to keep a website at full working speed is provided by the Google Research Blog: “Because the cost of slower performance increases over time and persists, we encourage site designers to think twice about adding a feature that hurts performance if the benefit of the feature is unproven.”
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