Let’s start with a question. What download speed would you expect in this scenario?
If you just think of network connections as a simple pipe, then you might expect the download speed to be approximately the same as the slowest network connection, i.e. 20 Mbps. When we tested this out using a local UK based website [...]
We’ve added a page to our HTTP Gallery that provides an introduction to Ajax and some simple working examples. The new page is available here:
http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/ajax/
BTW, you can view the AJAX requests made by this page using the free Basic Edition of HttpWatch.
If you’re tuning a web page’s performance there are two types of visitors that you need to be concerned about:
A new visitor to your site who won’t have any of your pages, scripts, CSS or images in their browser cache.
An existing user of your site who will have your cacheable pages, scripts, CSS or images in [...]