Sessions at Web Directions South 2010 about Web Performance

Thursday 14th October 2010

• Doing Horrible Things to DNS (in the name of science)

  by Tom Hughes-Croucher

  • DNS
  • Web Performance

  At 1:10pm to 1:25pm, Thursday 14th October

  Coverage slide deck

• Even Faster Web Sites

  by Steve Souders

  Web 2.0 is adding more and more content to our pages, especially features that are implemented in Ajax. But our web applications are evolving faster than the browsers that they run in. We don’t have to rely on or wait for the release of new browsers to make our web applications faster. In this session, Steve Souders discusses web performance best practices from his second book, Even Faster Web Sites. These time-​​saving techniques are used by the world’s most popular web sites to create a faster user experience, increase revenue, and reduce operating costs. Steve provides technical details about reducing the pain of JavaScript, as well as secrets for making your page load faster in emerging markets where network connectivity is a challenge.

  • JavaScript
  • Web Performance

  At 2:40pm to 3:35pm, Thursday 14th October

  Coverage audio clip slide deck

Friday 15th October 2010

• Mark Nottingham — Browser Caching and You (A Love Story)

  by Mark Nottingham

  Over time, Web developers have feared, hated and loved Web caching, at times trying to kill it, at others professing undying love. Mark Nottingham (chair of the IETF HTTPbis Working Group and author of its revised Web Caching specification) will examine how browsers (mis)-treat your content today, as well as where your relationship with browser caching might go in the future.

  • Caching
  • HTTP
  • Web Performance

  At 1:40pm to 2:35pm, Friday 15th October

  Coverage slide deck audio clip