From the course: Developing for Web Performance
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Bottlenecks
From the course: Developing for Web Performance
Bottlenecks
- [Instructor] Knowing where performance bottlenecks appear in the pipeline between your service and the visitor's browser is key to performance optimization, so let's map them out. Keep in mind here, this is going to be different from site to site and service to service. You need to investigate your particular circumstances to identify which bottlenecks cause performance issues for you. Starting all the way at the source, the server itself can contribute to poor performance. How fast the server processor is, how much memory it has, what types of storage it uses, what else is happening on the server if it's a shared server... All of these things can have a significant performance impact, especially on sites with a lot of traffic. The server connection and bandwidth also has an impact on performance. Slower connections or congested shared connections lead to poor performance. To address server-based performance…
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