The navicon is almost universally recognizable as a hover-for-navigation element, but it requires another image be loaded, unless you are clever about implementing it.
Using Lazy Definition to load JavaScript libraries on demand
With the number of amazing JavaScript libraries out there, it’s tempting to overload our pages with http connections that load these scripts and immediately execute them. We can spare our user’s bandwidth and page load time by combining two popular techniques.
The back button cache – taming it with HTML 5
The browser back button has been a thorn in every web developers side since the early days of the web. HTML 5 storage offers us a unique way to avoid using AJAX to updated certain page elements in the event that the back button is pressed.
Prefer conditional loading of social network scripts
Are you loading social network button scripts on your site unnecessarily, and increasing your page load time in the process?
Using Google’s New PageSpeed Module for Apache
Google’s new PageSpeed Apache Module is incredible. I did however hit a few snags in the installation and configuration of the module. Nothing serious, but I thought it was worth pointing them out, in case others run into the same problems.
Social sharing buttons – the right way
Social sharing buttons have been around for a few years now. They’re ridiculously popular for three reasons: They bring traffic to your site, for free…
Reduce load time and resource usage with Content On-Demand
Your local area cable provider has been putting the concept of On-Demand to good use for years, providing television or movie titles only when specifically…
Reasons to avoid inline CSS & JavaScript
Every HTML page consists of three major components: The skin/template (including meta data) HTML tags used to wrap the content and provide information about the…
Loading jQuery asynchronously
If you're reading this, you probably are already familiar with loading your JavaScript asynchronously, to improve your web page load times. And, you have probably…
Page speed is calling out Google hosted Javascript libraries
You may have done everything you can to optimize the JavaScript resources that you host on your server, but if you find yourself using a…