PHP Performance Profiling With APD On Windows

| Created: December 27th, 2007
Web Page Optimisation 26 Comments

When writing code, its important to keep system performance in mind. No matter how useful your software is, if it places too much stress on the server, it won’t be used. How can you tell if your code is efficient? Well, experience helps, but it also pays to have good tools. Continue reading

Amazing Results – Optimising Image Size Using Smush.it

| Created: October 30th, 2008
Web Page Optimisation 57 Comments

There are dozens of new web based applications being launched every day. Most are moderately useful, but it’s rare that I actually need to use one. After playing with them for a while, I normally abandon them and go back to the core tools I use to get things done.

Well, I found one that’s going right into my toolset: smush.it, the image optimisation web application.

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