How to reduce your page loads from 72 seconds to 1.52 seconds
If you’re expecting some kind of long winded tutorial about optmising, caching and super-charging your site, sorry to disappoint. The advice is: Don’t use flickr Ok, if you’re not a flickr user you’ve probably stopped reading already, but if not you might be rewarded by one or two nuggets of useful information. The story starts with Hiro’s personal blog being at the top of hatena’s bookmarks page (think Japanese delicious). Unfortunately, it was hosted in-house about 2 metres away from where I am sitting. I think I can still smell the smoke :p It was swamped, no-one could get through to it but we kept it up in some vain attempt to let whoever access the Evangelion related story. The server wasn’t tuned or optimised...