Articles on Web Performance

• Stephen Pierzchala
• Performance Testing With cURL
• Caching and Compression for Performance
• Performance Improvements Using Content Compression
• Mind Your MTUs and MSSs
• Misuse of Round-Robin DNS
• Persistent Connections and HTTP

Papers/Presentations on Web Performance

• Caching for Performance — Stephen Pierzchala
• Caching for Performance (Presentation) — Stephen Pierzchala

Web Standards

• RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.0
• RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
• RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
• RFC 3229: Delta encoding in HTTP
• RFC 2965: HTTP State Management Mechanism

Online Web Performance Tools

• Web Page Analyzer — Andrew King
• GrabIT! HTML Grabber — Stephen Pierzchala
• URL Breakdown Tool — Ian Holsman
• HTTPing — Folkert van Heusden
• Browser Configuration Check