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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Faster Websites

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/14_rules_for_fast_web_pages_by_1.html and the related PowerPoint deck presented in the first paragraph provide useful tips on perf optimization for your website.

The only tip I disagree with is #13, turn off ETags. The tip neglects the fact that (for IIS at least) you can have your servers use synchronized ETags to prevent the load-balancing problem.

1 Comments:

  • In the book (you can read it on Safari RoughCuts) Steve notes that ETAGs can be configured (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922703/ for IIS) so that they're not a problem, but he notes that even some major sites fail to do this.

    By Blogger Ericlaw, at 1:55 PM  

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