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JavaScript placement for performance

Wasim Asif — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:49:11 +0000

A new post in Web Application Performance series have been posted. If JavaScript is not placed properly it can reduce front end performance badly. See the post JavaScript Placement to see how JavaScript should be placed.

CSS Placement for performance

Wasim Asif — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:19:17 +0000

Another post in web application performance series has been posted. The post covers how css file should be placed in a web page to improve its performance. You can see the post “Web Application Performance: CSS Placement“on our blog. You can find more post to improve performance at http://www.infotales.com/topic/web-performance-optimization/.

Reducing http requests for performance

Wasim Asif — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:08:47 +0000

In web application performance series if have posted a new post describing how to reduce http requests . Reducing http requests can significantly improve page performance and load time. Stay tuned for more in web application performance series.

Web Application Performance series

Wasim Asif — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:39:49 +0000

I have started a new series of post to enhance web application performance. The series will include different methods to improve web application performance both at server side and front end.

Main topics covered includes

Using conditional requests, expires header, keep-alive, gzip compression
Reducing HTTP requests
Caching images in browser
Adding gzip Compression
Proper CSS Placements
Proper JavaScript placement
Minimizing CSS and JavaScript code
Serving images from cookie less domain
Avoiding HTTP redirection
Optimizing Ajax
Using PHP accelerators for web server performance

Stay tuned to be updated about these topics for web performance enhancements.

SEO how to tell Google more about page?

Wasim Asif — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:53:12 +0000

Telling as much as possible to Google about your different pages, can certainly help in SEO. For example if you have a tables of content, or glossary for the site do tell it to Google and other search engines. Now the question is how to do it for that, see Establishing relationship between pages for SEO. In the post different tags are listed with example, to establish relationship between different pages.

For more on SEO please visit http://www.infotales.com/

Search types in Magento

Wasim Asif — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:57:40 +0000

Magento provides different kind of search types. These include “LIKE”, Fulltext and combined. To increase Magento performance what type should be selected? you can find this and more on Magento performance on http://www.infotales.com/magento-performance-search-type-selection/

CRE Loaded exploit allows access to admin without password

Wasim Asif — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:32:21 +0000

An security exploit in CRE Loaded allows any to get into admin are and lot of things like view confidential information about orders, customers, upload files etc. Immediate fix is needed in ALL versions of CRE Loaded older than 6.4.1a.

See the screen shot to see how information can be seen without username password.

You can more details and fix of the issue on http://www.infotales.com/oscommerce-cre-loaded-security-issue-allows-access-admin-area/

osCommerce exploit allows access to admin without password

Wasim Asif — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:29:37 +0000

An security exploit in osCommerce allows any to get into admin are and lot of things like view confidential information about orders, customers, upload files etc. Immediate fix is needed in ALL versions of osCommerce.

See the screen shot to see how information can be seen without username password.

You can more details and fix of the issue on http://www.infotales.com/oscommerce-cre-loaded-security-issue-allows-access-admin-area/

Location of Server, impact on traffic from Google

Wasim Asif — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:50:49 +0000

In my new post I added an live example of server location impacting traffic from Google. You can see the post at http://www.infotales.com/server-location-impact-on-google-traffic/

For more performance optimization tips see http://www.infotales.com/

HTML5: New tags and removed tags

Wasim Asif — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:01:59 +0000

HTML5 is on its way to hit web pretty soon.
See which tags has been added at http://www.infotales.com/html5-whats-new/
and tags removed can be seen
http://www.infotales.com/html4-tags-removed-in-html5/