performance - Dean Hume's Blog

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performance

A collection of 3 posts

Web Performance

HTTP vs HTTPS performance comparison

Google recently announced that they will be starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal in their search algorithms. This means that websites that serve traffic over HTTPS with secure, encrypted connections will be slightly favoured over those websites that don't. During Google I/O, there was a big push

Web Performance

Web Page Performance - Profiling paint times

I recently attended the Facebook Mobile Developers Conference in London. Throughout the day, there were a load of great talks, but the one that really stuck out for me was a performance talk entitled "Making m.facebook.com fast". It was all about how Facebook constantly strive to improve the

Compiling LINQ queries for improved performance

I've been using Linq to Sql for quite a while now, and here and there I have heard of compiling your Linq queries mentioned. Now I know that this feature has been around for a while in terms of .net, but I have never actually got round to using it.