I have been running YSlow against my site and the Microsoft Ajax files are quite hefty: http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/3.5/MicrosoftAjax.js = 99.3k and http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/mvc/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js = 136.7k Is there likely to be a minified version of these files on the Microsoft CDN soon? ...
I was going through Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from developer site of yahoo... What are the advantages and disadvantages of using CDN(Content Delivery Network)? When to use CDN? Is CDN a performance booster? ...
When I load dojo 1.4 from google's CDN, I get the following error: native string.js:183 Uncaught illegal access This only happens on about half the refreshes when using Chrome, other times it works fine. I've verified that the problem reproduces on multiple windows machines running Chrome. I'm using the following code to create my doj...
Hey all, I’m hoping to investigate/implement a CDN (initially just via a sub-domain, though moving over to CDN in time) and am having a mare finding resources that talk about handling of versions of files on that sub-domain. Most places I’ve worked previously have implemented caching of resources (images, javascript, css, etc.) and whe...
This may be obvious to some, but I've been wondering: why should I depend on Google's server to host jQuery for my site? Is it only because it loads faster this way? ...
I am doing a project where user can upload images like profile image or image for their image gallary. right now its uploading all the images to my server. Now, i want to upload all this image to my rackspace cloud files directly using php script. For example: user select a file press submit with some information the selected file w...
Google hosts a number of JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and dojo on their CDN. For some reason, their own Google Closure library does not seem to be included. Is there a hosted version of the Closure library? ...
Hi, Its been a couple of weeks that some sites just keeps on hanging. e.g. Facebooks => static.ak.fbcdn.net FLicker => l.yimg.com GoogleAnalytics I've googled and found many problems like this and some answers which are outdated or just doesn't solve the problem. I did: Cookies clearing, ran cc cleaner and several other nifty methods. ...
I am getting ready to deploy a cakephp app onto the web and i want to move all the assets (img, js, css) to a CDN to increase performance. Is there a way to globally change the location the HTML helper links to assets instead of having to change every link. ...
Is there a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is hosting google-code-prettify? I am putting together a blog on TypePad and would like to take advantage of a CDN if possible. ...
How do you include Javascript from a CDN source using Smarty? We have code such as the following for including it from a file on the web server, but I want to include it from a CDN instead. {javascript file="prototype.js" priority=20} When I access the Smarty documentation at http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/ "javascript" cannot be ...
I would like to use Google's copy of jQuery, to spare some load on my company's local web servers: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js While this is great for many sites (include stackoverflow and my personal website), I am hesitant to introduce this change to my company's public website. Personally, I ...
I work for a Fortune 500 company that struggles with accurately measuring performance and availability for high availability applications (i.e., apps that are up 99.5% with 5 seconds page to page navigation). We factor in both scheduled and unscheduled downtime to determine this availability number. However, we recently added a CDN int...
I want to use a CDN version of Dojo but I also want to use my collection of widgets in my own name space. How do I make the two play together? ...
When Yahoo! developer guide says "Deploying your content across multiple, geographically dispersed servers will make your pages load faster from the user's perspective". And as an explanation I read somewhere, that browsers will load up to 5 things simultaneously from the same domain. Would a subdomain, for example cdn.example.com be ...
I'd like to improve my page by combining and minifying javascript and CSS files. Since MVCContrib already contains a project called IncludeHandling, I took a look at that which unfortunately left me with unanswered questions: There is quite a set of interfaces and objects involved in the process. Now I'm using Ninject.Mvc, but it seems ...
I've built a javascript file that my clients will be installing on their website which will call my server. I'm wondering if it would be better to host the javascript file on a CDN, instead of on my server? The benefits would be better response time and a much higher chance that it will always be available. However, In the future, if ...
Hi, I'm having trouble loading JQueryUI from Google's CDN. I've got an ASP.NET application that and am using this to call the scripts: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.js" t...
Hi, I would like to know if Google App Engine can be used as a Content delivery network like aws S3. I'm running a RoR app on Heroku and I would like store my uploaded files on GAE instead of s3. If it's possible what would be the best way to do it? ...
I have a peculiar problem. My main.swf loads symbols from other swfs at runtime. If I keep all the swfs(main and others) on my server, things work fine. But if I keep all of them on a CDN, one particular symbol won't display occassionally. With flash tracer plugin for firefox I am able to see that all the symbols have been loaded a...