Page load time is critical – how to make your site run fast?

Page load time is critical. A lot of people highlight the importance of fast web sites. Amongst them are Steve Souders, Patrick Meenan, Tammy Everts, Stoyan Stefanov and others.

What to do to make your site run fast? There are tons of pages, blogs, hints, tips, tricks and other stuff around in the web. Here’s my favorite collection:

At FriendScout24, we follow this idea of fast web pages as well. I talk in another post in greater details about our goals, achievements and how we actually did it.

10 rules to prevent a web site from high scalability

On highscalability.com there is a great post on things you should do to prevent your web site from high scalability: “The 10 Deadly Sins Against Scalability“. The post points to Sean Hull who twitters and writes quite frequently on scalability topics (surprise, surprise).

Sean Hull wrote in his blog about “5 things toxic to scalability” (2011) and “Five More Things Deadly to Scalability” (2013). Definitely worth reading entries on high scalability – and common pitfalls.

Book by Martin L. Abbott, Mihcael T. Fisher on scalability rules.

In the context of this topic, Sean also recommends a book: “Scalability Rules for managers and startups”.

Very good reading to avoid all high-scalability pit-falls right from the beginning!