Analyzing and Improving Your Website Performance

How many times have people said that your website is too slow and you found out that there is nothing you can do to improve its performance? The final option most of the times might have been either trying to change your hosting server (may be even blaming him for purposely slowing your website) or finding several ways to optimize your code.

Over last few months I have been facing this same problem. I browsed the web for answers, even went ahead and bought many books on Website Optimization. All of them more or less targeted the same issue of caching static contents using additional third party tools which improvises upon browser caching thus getting better performance and all that sort of stuff.

Analyzing the Website Performance

There were enough options to start that made me crazy as to which one to go ahead with, I wanted things to be under my control rather than adding complexities. For this I needed information as to what actually is traveling between my web server and web browser. I added loggers in my code to note the timestamps at server, even timed by database queries.

All I wanted to know was what actually was being downloaded by the client. In this situation one tool finally came to my rescue. That was .. Click Here to read the entire Post