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Optimizing Your Website – Speed and Performance

Posted by Tim On September - 14 - 2009

website optimizationNothing like listening to the whirl of your hard drive as the progress bar in your browser slowly creeps forward.  There are so many pitfalls which designers and coders fail to see when designing a website. CMS users beware, you too could be a victim. I have seen many articles on increasing performance as well as lists which show the “Top 10″ items, they are all great but let’s be serious for a moment.

Misuse, abuse, overuse, and just plain ignorance results in slow loading sites, these are not all the same. Sure there is poor code out there, but it can run better and faster than a clean written site when many obstacles are overcome. As high speed internet takes over and bandwidth becomes second to file size we can not lose focus on what is slowing our sites down.
For those who don’t like to read, a top 10 list is at the bottom

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PHP and APC – Tutorial

Posted by Tim On September - 12 - 2009

APC is most widely known for allowing the end user to be able to track the progress of file transfers. APC, which stands for “Alternative PHP Cache” does much more than that. Complex and large scale websites can benefit from it’s ability to cache data and as well as its optimization of PHP code.

If you are looking for a tutorial on using APC for tracking file upload progress then visit my tutorial for File Upload Progress

APC does not have a large host of commands, this does not ease the complexity. We will take a look at a few simple functions and explain their use, in addition I will try to explain the practical reasons to use them. There are a few warnings to adhere to when trying utilize alternative PHP cache, these will also be discussed.

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I am an independent web developer and webmaster of many sites. The main goal of Script Perfect is to provide answers to some of the hard to find questions when it comes to website design and coding.

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