How We Achieved a .50s Page Load

http://blog.netdna.com/maxcdn/the-new-maxcdn-built-for-design-speed/

by jdorfman • 14 years ago

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herbshire2• 14 years ago

Hey guys,

Just noticed your site loads fine in IE10 then kicks me out saying I'm using IE6...

Might want to fix that.

jdorfman• 14 years ago

@herbshire good catch, deploying a fix now. email me for a free account: jdorfman at maxcdn dot com

nycacorp2• 14 years ago

This should be fixed now, a purge CDN cache did the trick

kerno2• 14 years ago

Wow, that is really fast. This article is really detailed and has given me lots of things to look at tonight.

I'm assuming based on the WPMinify mention that this is a WP site - would be curious to know if the speed improvements were all in html/css/js and caching, or if there was anything done to WP as well.

tjasko2• 14 years ago

Thanks! We use WP Engine to host the site, which they have a pretty nice system set in place to host WordPress. They have a page on their system architecture here: http://wpengine.com/our-infrastructure/

Basically, it just comes down to caching in a brilliant way. But other than that, we did not do anything special to WordPress itself.

kerno2• 14 years ago

Hi tjasko - that's for the follow-up info. We're on WPEngine as well and now I'm excited to see how much of an improvement we can make using the techniques you covered. Thankyou

angrydev• 14 years ago

Sublime Text with the Solarized Dark theme, love it.

tjasko2• 14 years ago

Hehe, it's my favorite! Solarized Dark is a beast in the terminal too.

tamoorshafi• 14 years ago

amazing!

redguava• 14 years ago

Really nice to read an article like this that actually goes into detail and gives you some things you can take away and apply right away.

Thanks for sharing and great job on the website, loads super fast for me.

milunt• 14 years ago

go christ! for the icons you can try putting them into font which may be faster

DrJ• 14 years ago

I think there are 3 things that should be applied to anyone serving images.

1. Expires Header (for static) 2. Cache-Control Headers (for less static) 3. KeepAliveTimeout (might be a double edged sword)

and you can set the first 2 on Amazon S3

nycacorp2• 14 years ago

true you can also set these on the NetDNA CDN Platform through their vhost modification service. also any origin server should be able to set these as well and any CDN honor those settings

oisino• 14 years ago

super helpful article

How We Achieved a .50s Page Load

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