Sean Walther's Blog» Optimization

Google Webmaster: Site Performance is as important as SEO

seangw — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:30:09 +0000

Web developers always say it’s important to speed up a site. Either cut the size of an image, or minimize requests. Why should we? Everyone has a broadband connection and a fast computer. Why worry about an extra second or two? First, it’s never just worrying about a second, it’s sometimes worrying about cutting a [...]

Google Webmaster: Site Performance is as important as SEO is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Front End Performance

seangw — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:40:21 +0000

We’re all web developers here right? Most of us? At least, I am. An article posted at DrunkenFist.com, Why Front End Performance Matters to Everyone, Not Just the High Traffic Giants, goes into why front end performance is important on all sized sites. The article quotes a commonly spoken theme in web development: That stuff [...]

Front End Performance is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Flash Optimizations of onClip enterFrame events

seangw — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:41:49 +0000

I’m going to be writing up a tutorial and exploring the benefits of what I am about to propose, this is for conversation and discussion. When creating MovieClip objects that update their status every frame they enter, traditionally you bind a general loop to their “onClipEvent(enterFrame)” or other methods to bind to the onEnterFrame method. [...]

Flash Optimizations of onClip enterFrame events is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog