Beyond caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster websites

October 19, 2013

In the fiercely competitive world of Internet services, Google constantly seeks ways to speed up the delivery of content to its hundreds of millions of users. At the O’Reilly Velocity conference this week in New York, two Google engineers presented some of their favorite tips and research for expediting delivery of web pages and applications. Such knowledge could be handy for other web developers looking to make their products more responsive. Google developer advocate and performance expert Colt McAnlis tackled one of the thorniest problems for mobile web developers today: JavaScript performance. Web-based JavaScript applications can suffer from performance issues, especially on mobile clients, because JavaScript parsing engines use garbage collection (GC) to manage memory. “You shouldn’t rely on garbage collectors,” McAnlis told the audience of web developers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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