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May 17, 2010 jawr

Decrease your pages load time, one year later

More than one year ago, I blogged about pages load time and Jawr. Since then, either my projects were intranet applications where load time was not an issue or we had no say in the tools used. So, I had no possibility to use any of the tools I found then. Now, I’m soon to be faced by an application that will be used by people outside our network and I definitely want the application to be as responsive as possible. Armed with my previous Yahoo best practices, I hunted on the web for tools t

Mar 17, 2009 jawr jsp taglib web yslow

Decrease your pages load time

1. Generalities Web applications have several advantages over traditional client server applications: since business code comes from a unique server (forget clustering here), they are always up-to-date. Moreover, deployment of a new version is only a matter of minutes. They have one big drawback, though. Since HTML code is sent through the network, responsiveness is generally much less than that of traditional applications. The responsiveness of an interactive system describes how quickly