Posted: November 16th, 2009 | Filed under: Performance Tools, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: cache, cache control, caching
What is Cache Control?
Cache control is not to be confused directly with caching itself, which is generally a special high-speed storage mechanism that can be either a reserved section of main memory or an independent high-speed storage device. Cache control is also different from caching in ASP.NET or PHP Web development technologies that focus on the pre-generation of DB queries so dynamic pages load faster for browsers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: November 16th, 2009 | Filed under: Performance Tools, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: cache, cache control, cache management, caching
Spend Your Cache Wisely
Understanding Caching and Cache Control
Cache, not to be confused with “cash”, isn’t something to be spent down at the local market or every time someone loads your page for that matter. Effective cache control involves managing the freshness and frequency of your page loads. The basic idea behind caching is simple. Instead of wasting efforts by re-downloading a resource every time it is needed, keep a local copy, and reuse it for as long as it is still valid. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: April 24th, 2009 | Filed under: Browsers, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: ajax cache, cache, caching, data uri, gzip, multipart stream, page speed, request bundling, site performance, web 2.0
Yesterday we saw an interesting effort from Digg to address the problem of multiple requests and its effect on page speed.
Recently there has been growing interest in various schemes for request bundling. For example, a way to use data URIs in most browsers was shown here: http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/base64-image/code.txt. It is ugly, but mostly works. In the past we have seen other folks use a variety of client and server-side schemes to bring inlined images and other assets to the masses - mostly with little success. That’s too bad. Read the rest of this entry »
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