Isolating the Effects of CSS on Webpage Load Times

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Posted June 7, 2013 by Arwen Price 3

There are several ways to make your website’s performance great. The three main areas you can work on are hardware (your web server), server-side scripting optimization (PHP, Python, Java), and front-end performance (the interface of the web page i.e. HTML, CSS, JS, J-Query). Today we will focus on the front end performance effects of CSS. We will look at isolating the negative effects of CSS on webpage load time and discuss different techniques to improve webpage performance by tuning your CSS. Combine CSS files Each CSS file you create is a resource that needs to be loaded. For each one […]

A Beginner’s Look at Load Testing

Posted June 5, 2013 by Arwen Price 0

I know a large number of LoadStorm’s clients understand load testing, scripting, and [insert all the technical jargon here] that comes along with it, but what about those of us who don’t? Therefore, I am writing this article for the people like me who just want quick, easy, plain english answers to the questions: What the heck is load testing? Why do I need it? How do I get started? What is Load Testing? In plain English, load testing is putting a large simulated “load” of virtual users on a website or web application and measuring the web servers capacity […]

A Guide to Load Test Smarter

Posted April 2, 2013 by Arwen Price 0

Jason Buksh is a Technical Project Manager and Performance & Load Test Consultant in London, England. Jason has extensive experience with performance testing at many companies including HSBC, CMC Markets & Siemens. He gives independent advice, is test tool agnostic and has wide experience with many of the leading market tools. Jason also writes many articles and runs the Performance Testing blog perftesting.co.uk We appreciate his time to share his thoughts and experience with us about a topic that gets us excited. Here are some tips from him to make the best of your load testing. 10 Tips from Jason […]