Speed up Google+ Button by loading Javascript only when someone hovers
October 12th, 2011I was recently checking the speed of this blog, and I found the Google+ button was REALLY slowing down my site. I did a bit of research, and people were suggesting to “load it when someone hovers over” … which made sense Here is an example of what we are trying to do: http://www.mywebsitedesignersblog.com/examples/speeding_up_google_plus.html Its [...]
Optimize JPG image on your site the easy way!
June 10th, 2011I was recently tasked with trying to “optimize” a selection of JPEG images (over 20,000 of them – so not something you would want to do manually!). After a bit of research, I came across jpegtran After seeing how simple it was to save large chunks of data for those images, I decided to write [...]
Optimizing your web-site
January 18th, 2011I get asked this quite a lot, and the best resource I’ve found thus far, is GTMetrix. Basically, what this site does, is run your page through Firefox’s "Firebug" and "YSlow" add-ons, and then returns the results back to you in a very nice (and clean!) interface, so you can see exactly whats going on [...]
