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"Simplify.js is a tiny high-performance JavaScript 2D/3D polyline simplification library by Vladimir Agafonkin, extracted from Leaflet, a JS interactive maps library of the same author. It uses a combination of Douglas-Peucker and Radial Distance algorithms. Works both on browser and server platforms."

Web developers using high amounts of domain sharding to work around low connection per host limits in old browser should reconsider their number of shards for newer browsers. Anything over 2 is probably too much, unless most of your user base is using older browsers.

Itw by M. Hendrickson Current state of the Performance and Operations market. Terms, semantics and DevOps, are we splitting hairs? What do performance people do on a daily basis? Do you need to tradeoff anything to get better performance? Are most websites acceptable when it comes to speed? Measuring slowness -- clarified and demystified Where do you find performance monitoring tools? How do you know if you have a fast enough web site? Does Mobile disrupt your quest for high performance? Does HTML5 add any more complexity challenges to high performance web sites? Wrap up and discussion of Velocity Conference

"Web FontFonts speak many languages, but most of the time you only need a select few. Removing the letters you don't need can greatly reduce the font file size to make your websites faster, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce high-traffic costs. "

Perform JPEGmini processing locally on your hosts. The server software is supported for all major versions of Linux, and is optimized for high-performance, utilizing multiple cores in parallel to process millions of multi-megapixel photos per month on a single CPU.