Reducing the number of requests
As well as reducing request sizes, one way to potentially boost the performance of your website is to reduce the number of requests required to load each page. Every HTTP…
Reducing request sizes
One way to improve the performance of your website - regardless of language - is to reduce the amount of data sent across the network. Even though many users now…
Using exec to reduce PHP memory use
As mentioned in a previous post, I've recently started to use a library called dompdf to convert HTML to PDF using PHP. One of the major problems I came across…
Serving static files from a different domain
Whilst debugging a site last week, I noticed the following header was being sent to the server with each request (actual name/value removed): Cookie: cookiename=cookievalue When requesting the main PHP…