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TomGullen on Feb 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Make your website fast. (And why you should).

Great tip there, thank you!

I beleive you can do more, for example if you start looking:

- DNS (I don't know too much about this though)

- How the web server handles the requests (I saw a post here on HN about this recently but can't find it where MS/Google change some deep settings to improve loading time)

- Preloading pages by guessing users next page choice

All are quite difficult to execute however and provide diminishing returns over making sure you have all the fundamental things set up correctly.

CWIZO on Feb 29, 2012 [–]

You are thinking about TCP slow start: http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat...

I'm looking into that yes.

youngtaff on March 1, 2012 | [–]

Tuning initial congestion window (aka slow-start)...

On Linux - http://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/tune-tcp-initcwnd-for-optimum-...

On Windows - http://www.andysnotebook.com/2011/11/increasing-the-tcp-init...

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