11Mar 10
Thanks to all those who attended our webinar today hosted by Joel Oleson.
Joel provided tips and tricks as well as best practices for optimizing your SharePoint servers in 10 easy steps including methods to optimize your storage, discuss compression options, and tune your worker processes.
Joel's presentation is now available to download and the webinar will be posted here shortly.
23Feb 10
Aptimize WAX immediately improves your YSlow compliance by automatically optimizing pages with performance best practices.
Typically, WAX will increase the YSlow score by 20+ and at least two grades.
WAX helps compliance with the following YSlow guidelines:
Guideline
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How WAX helps
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Minimize HTTP Requests
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Merges JS, CSS files into fewer files. Merges images into sprites
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Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header
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Automatically adds far-future-expires headers to resources and uses auto URL versioning to ensure cached resources are kept up-to-date
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Gzip Components
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Components are Gzipped and cached on the server to reduce CPU load
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Put Stylesheets at the Top
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Stlyesheets are moved to the top of the page
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Put Scripts at the Bottom
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Scripts can be moved to the bottom (or anywhere) on the page
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Reduce DNS Lookups
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External resources can be cached and served from the local server
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Minify JavaScript and CSS
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JS and CSS are minified
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Remove Duplicate Scripts
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Duplicate JS files, stylesheets and images are removed
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Configure ETags
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ETags are stripped from the resources
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Optimize Images
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Images can be resampled, and GIFs converted to PNGs
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Optimize CSS Sprites
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CSS Sprites are created and organized horizontally
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Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable
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Favicon is configured for caching, and inserted if it is missing, removing a 404 condition.
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The current YSlow guidelines can be found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
14Feb 10
Default SharePoint configuration is not tuned for your deployment. Did you know by simply planning for it you can easily double the performance of your deployment? This webinar, hosted by Joel Oleson, will focus on tips and tricks as well as best practices around optimizing your SharePoint servers.
Joel will provide 10 easy steps and methods to optimize your storage, discuss compression options, and tune your worker processes. Don’t forget considering performance from client to server optimization. This presentation will include and address SharePoint 2010 Enhancements and techniques. Attendees will walk away with a step by step methodology and tools to get started today!
>> Register for webinar
In this session Joel will walk through:
- Storage optimization
- Page optimization
- Webpart optimization
- List optimization
- End to end browser optimization
- Performance Tools to make your job easier
- Caching and more!
>> Register for webinar
Speaker Bio:
Joel Oleson is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog www.sharepointjoel.com - Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was involved in the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure, Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He later designed the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments.
Before Joel joined Microsoft, he worked for a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments.
>> Register for webinar
10Feb 10
In it's latest move to make the Internet experience faster Google have announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States.
The experiment 'Think Big With A Gig' aims to deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections; offering the service to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
The project also intends to provide a platform for outside developers to create and try out cutting-edge applications that will require far more bandwidth than today's networks offer.
Google has invited communities, cities, and individuals interested in joining the experiment to apply by March 26 with a view to eventually building the network in a number of US locations.
21Jan 10
Interview with Michael Martin of ResourceNation - Android’s impact on the mobile market makes website speed even more important as the amount of people that will make purchasing decisions and do business using them is about to accelerate in 2010.
“… a micro millisecond difference, but that’s gonna be part of the factors of 2010.”
