Nerd alert : This post is only for crazy website performance freaks. Proceed at your own risk. The holy grail for us crazy website performance freaks is to reach a perfect score of 100/100 in Google Page Speed without...

In the beginning of January, we released the Web Developer Checklist with great interest from the general web community. The checklist helps raising awareness of common best practices for building websites. It was always...

Rule #1 in website optimization is to enable GZip compression on the web server. This is very easy using web.config as explained here . However, some web servers have disabled automatic compression of JavaScript files...

So you just built a website and are about to make it public to the world. You go through a few checks to make sure that everything works as expected. Perhaps run HTML validation and other similar services. But are you...

At //build and today at VS Live I gave a talk about performance optimizing ASP.NET web applications using bundling, minification and other cool tricks. See the video presentation The Visual Studio 2010 extension I used...

In part 1 of this series , we looked at some tricks to optimize the performance of any website running in IIS 7 by only modifying the web.config. In this part we will focus on handling browser caching issues and optimize...

In this first installment of performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 we will look at some of the easy, yet powerful possibilities in the web.config file. By taking advantage of these few tricks we can increase the performance of any new or existing website without changing anything but the web.config file.

A few weeks back i found out that the method I use to minify CSS was about 5% more efficient than the YUI Compressor . I tweeted about it and was encouraged to post the code that does the actual minification. public...

A very simple and small class for utilizing the Google Closure Compiler API for minifying JavaScript.

How to use JavaScript and the browser as a tool to scale websites