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:
- On quora.com, there is a great question “How to make a webiste run fast?” – answered by some really bright people. Have a try!
- Yahoo! has a classic post on this in their developer corner: “Best practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site”.
- Visit Steve Souders blog on Performance.
- Google’s “Make the Web Faster” initiative, Web Performance Best Practices and PageSpeed Insights
- Nice aggregation of a lot of blogs in “Planet Performance: News and views from the web performance blogosphere“
- Really great blog about high scalability, performance and architecture: HighScalability.com
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.