Performance Tuning by Yahoo
Here’s an interesting article by Yahoo: “Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site“. While you may not be able to optimize some of the ALUI portal’s less-than-stellar behaviors related to performance (really, 1+ Megabyte .js files?), these tips can help eke out even more performance from your custom code. Some aren’t really relevant to custom code being served through a portal server (such as “use a Content Distribution Network”), but many are (such as “GZip Components” and “Make JavaScript and CSS External“).
The interesting thing to remember here is that from a web browser’s perspective, your portal is just a web site, subject to the same caching rules and performance limitations. Most optimizations you read about for web sites can be applied to your own site.
