A couple of days months ago Vitali Fridman showed some of the performance improvements they have made on smashingmagazine.com. One enhancement was adding a prerender resource hint (also called a browser hint). The prerender resource hint or resource hints in general are not something new. They have been around for several years but I have never used or been […]
Tag: performance

Sitecore Admin Pages – EXPLAINED
Did you know that Sitecore comes with a bunch of admin pages? And not just a couple? They’re quite hidden and undocumented but still very useful and can help with debugging and clarification of your solution. The admin pages varies from Sitecore version to version why my overview will be based on what’s available in the latest Sitecore version, […]

Sitecore Fast Publishing
I was having issues with sitecore publish performing badly when I stumbled into the FastPublishing attribute which is controlled in web.config. By default it’s turned off. <setting name=”FastPublishing” value=”false” /> Great. That sounded exactly like what I needed. But why would you disable fast publishing by default? There must be a catch. Unfortunately sitecore hasn’t done any documentation for FastPublishing so you’re on […]

bLazy.js – A lazyload image script
2016.10.25: New release, bLazy version 1.8.2 bLazy is a lightweight script for lazy loading and multi-serving images. It’s written in pure JavaScript why it doesn’t depend on 3rd-party libraries such as jQuery. bLazy works on all modern browsers, including on IE7+. Demo | Download | Examples Contents How to use bLazy Options Selector Offset Container Callbacks, success & error […]