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Jake (280north/jake on GitHub)
A direct port of Rake to javascript on top of the CommonJS standard.
javascript  build  make  nodejs  development  web  performance 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Makefile at master from twitter/bootstrap - GitHub
Twitter Bootstrap has a great example of a Makefile working in tandem with Node commands.
make  opensource  development  web  performance  build 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Building the new AJAX mail UI part 2: Better than templates, building highly dynamic web pages « FastMail.FM Weblog
While innerHTML used to be much faster than JS DOM methods, this no longer holds for modern browsers. Let’s have a look at a benchmark: http://jsperf.com/innerhtml-or-dom/4
javascript  performance  architecture  development  web  blog 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Backbone Events vs. Ember Bindings: A Benchmark - jsFiddle
A speed comparison between Backbone's event system and Ember's Bindings system. I would like to dig in and find out why Ember is slowing down here.
javascript  performance  mvc 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Chrome Developer Tools: Timeline Panel - Google Chrome Developer Tools - Google Code
In-depth docs on Chrome's Developer Timeline tool, which can give you the deets on not just loading, but rendering and parsing time.
development  web  webkit  css  html  performance 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
hiive buzz: Accelerating ImpactJS With WebGL
WebGL is hardware-accelerated (runs on the graphics card), whereas 2D canvas is not. Some kind soul wrote a library that layers the 2D canvas API on top of the WebGL context. Result: hardware accelerated 2D.
Even crazier: the Creatures and Castles developer implemented it as a plugin for Impact.
game  development  web  webgl  javascript  canvas  impactjs  plugin  opensource  performance 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Lazy Load Plugin for jQuery
Delay load of images until you scroll to that area.
jquery  plugin  opensource  performance 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
JPEGmini - Your Photos on a Diet!
Effective and lossless jpg image compression. Like ImageOptim for jpgs.
image  performance  development  web  design 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Improving app cache | High Performance Web Sites
Good thoughts on what's wrong with AppCache and how to fix it.
appcache  mobile  performance  development  web 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Give an image, get a data-uri — Gist
A class for converting an image to it's CSS base64 representation.
python  image  css  performance 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
Book of Speed
Stoyan Stefanov is writing a free online book on web performance.
development  javascript  web  performance  book  free 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress › Batcache « WordPress Plugins
A more flexible cache using Memcached, where file-based caching is not practical.
cache  performance  wordpress  plugin 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Matt Cutts: Google incorporating site speed in search rankings
Aaand more about that. The only place I can find a reference to "window.onload" as a factor is in the comments of this post. Totally not legit.
seo  performance  webkit 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using site speed in web search ranking
Google using page speed in their rankings. Not a problem for devs that use best-practices. Bookmarking this for debunking "SEO guy" myths.

I hate that SEO is now a tag in my library.
seo  performance 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
yepnope.js | A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills!
Non-blocking loading with a twist: check if something exists and load polyfills if not. Delicious with Modernizr.
javascript  opensource  performance 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
$script.js
A tiny **643-byte** non-blocking script loader and dependency manager. Just the
basics.
javascript  library  performance  from iphone
february 2011 by gordonbrander
cssmin.js / Stoyan's phpied.com
A Javascript port of the CSS portion of YUI Compressor.
performance  javascript  css 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Closure Compiler Service
Web service version of the compiler. Nice in a pinch.
javascript  performance 
february 2011 by gordonbrander
LABjs
A script for non-blocking script loading and dependencies. A simpler, order-based alternative to require.js.
javascript  performance 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Inline <script> and <style> vs. external .js and .css — what’s the size threshold? · Mathias Bynens
1 http request may not be better than 2 loading in parallel. Overhead for an http request is about 100ms.
javascript  performance 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
RequireJS
A brilliant dependency and loading manager for Javascript. Basic setup will non-blocking load JS files over HTTP. Optionally, a bundled Rhino bash script can compile JS into a single file using Google Closure Compiler (CSS, too while your're at it).
javascript  jquery  library  framework  performance 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Efficiently Rendering CSS
Turns out browsers parse from right to left. Who knew?
css  development  performance 
october 2010 by gordonbrander
extsrcjs - Project Hosting on Google Code
A javascript to easily add cross-browser asynchronous external JS files.
javascript  opensource  library  development  performance 
october 2010 by gordonbrander
Use Google Libraries « WordPress Plugins
Automagically swap out WordPress' jQuery/Dojo/Prototype/etc files for those on the Google CDN.
jquery  wordpress  javascript  plugin  opensource  performance 
september 2010 by gordonbrander
6,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me
6,953 of the top 200,000 Alexa sites use Google's CDN. That means most everyone has a cached version of the library in their browser.
jquery  development  javascript  performance 
september 2010 by gordonbrander
DynaTrace
Performace-tracking and stack tracing software for Internet Explorer's rendering engine. There is a free version, too.
ie  development  javascript  css  web  app  performance 
september 2010 by gordonbrander
Moz Dev Center: HTML5 Link Prefetching
<link rel="next"> can now speed up your site. During idle the browser can fetch any link tag with rel="prefetch" or rel="next".
development  html  performance 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
PunyPNG PNG Compression
Web app for PNG optimization. You upload to their servers.
image  tool  web  development  performance 
april 2010 by gordonbrander
JSMinifier
A quick form-based Javascript minfier.
javascript  performance 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
Google Speed Docs: Let's make the web faster
Google gives low-level best practices and high-level concepts on how to create a fast web app.
web  development  javascript  php  code  html  css  learn  performance  pattern 
june 2009 by gordonbrander
minify - Google Code
The php5 script that strips and gzips a collection of CSS and JS files, speeding up HTTP requests enormously.
web  development  design  css  javascript  html  php  library  cache  tool  script  performance 
february 2009 by gordonbrander
CSS Cacheer
CSS pre-processing, server-side importing, constants, and more, thanks to Shaun Inman and the magic of PHP + apache.
css  php  development  tool  cache  optim  mod_rewrite  apache  performance 
june 2008 by gordonbrander
Rakaz's CSS/Javascript Concatinator
Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and CSS files with a simple PHP script and a tad bit of URL rewriting.
php  script  css  javascript  development  mod_rewrite  cache  apache  performance 
june 2007 by gordonbrander

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