Regular readers will know that I make extensive use of Azure Table Storage in both Report URI and Security Headers. As Report URI has grown and we’re now processing billions of reports per month for our users we’re always interested in performance or efficiency savings wherever possible. We…
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Following a few performance related blogs recently this one is following a similar trend and is going to look at Brotli compression. It was announced by Google in September 2015 and it claims to offer 20%-26% better compression than existing compression algorithms. That's a pretty noteworthy improvement to compression…
The performance of my site has always been a consideration, the faster your site, the better the browsing experience. I've made various changes in the past to try and boost performance but this is perhaps the best one so far. Setting up caching with Nginx. Performance We should all want…
Very often people tell me "we don't need HTTPS" and most of the time the justification is based on 1 of 2 arguments. It's either "we don't have a login screen" or "we don't serve any sensitive data". Supporting HTTPS on your site has…
I stumbled across what I assume is a performance optimisation being used by Twitter and wondered how much I could optimise my site using a similar principle. The changes would result in no difference to functionality but yield a slightly smaller payload for the page meaning faster page load times!…
PageSpeed is an open-source webserver module that is designed specifically to improve the performance of your site without having to make any changes to your content or workflow. By implementing a whole host of best practises, I saw a notable improvement in page load time by simply running the default…
CloudFlare offer a wide range of services, many of which are included in their free account. With security, analytics, CDN, apps and performance enhancements up for grabs, why are you not using CloudFlare? Straight from the overview section on the CloudFlare website, their aim is to increase the security and…
