In the first part of this series, two main areas that contribute to poor performance were discussed: hardware and software.  Part 2 will discuss other software that can contribute to poor performance.
It’s STILL a software problem
The structure, size, or location of HTML, images, JavaScript, CSS, etc., can make the difference between a page load time […]

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The UK website http://www.vnunet.com/ is truly slow.  Maybe it is slow from my location in the USA, but some of the users on their forums have complained about the slowness of the site way back in 2006. 
There are plenty of external javascript sources which are probably slowing it down. 
Clicking on the “Forum” link at the top […]

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In HTML, one can reference a file that contains just javascript by using the javascript tag with the src attribute:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.server.com/myscript.js”></script>
This can have some benefits with regard to performance, except when the file is located on a different server that you have no control over.  Having more than one of these external javascript links […]

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Is it Just Me, or is Microsoft.com the SLOWEST site ever?!
I often visit Microsoft’s site for various reasons: get new templates for Word, read some of the forums, download software, etc.  However, as of late, it is getting so painful just to go to some parts of their site.  To be fair, I’m certain that […]

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I’ve been trying out the Pandora, an online music station that plays music similar to any artist you type in.  You type in “Beatles” and you will hear a song from the Beatles, then a song from a similar artist.  You can rate the song you hear to get better suggestions.  Cool concept.
 Unfortunately for me, […]

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New website developers and system administrators sometimes ask the question, “why is our website so slow?”  The answer is often easy: the web server is overloaded, the database is being throttled by slow queries, etc.  But how do you narrow it down and get to those answers?
 
A step by step approach can lead you directly […]

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Send in URLs of slowly performance websites for analysis and recommendations. 

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Who hasn’t experienced poor performance with a computer at one time or another?  Or how about a slow website….that is so painfully slow….that you just give up in frustration. 
There should be a website devoted to overcoming poor performance, but, there simply isn’t one.  Sure, there are numerous websites and blogs that provide tips and tricks […]

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