Matt Mullenweg speaks about Improving Web Performance
Interesting and quite a coincidence I must say, to see another thought about web performance by Matt Mullenweg as recently I posted several posts about web performance: Web Performance Best Practices and One-Cent Tips to Increase Site Performance. For anyone who doesn’t know who is Matt Mullenweg, read more about him from Wikipedia. In short, he is the co-founder of a well-known software most bloggers used – Wordpress, and also a young entrepreneur living in San Fransisco. You may also want to check his blog.
There is a video of his recent talk in a technology conference where he spoke about how web performance is important and also shared his experience on handling these issues, mainly about his experiences in Wordpress and how the need for speed is really important.
Matt first talked about how Wordpress handles the 404 – aka Not Found page – causes a lot of performance overhead due to the fact that the 404 page generated by Wordpress is apparently database driven, unlike other static 404 pages. Matt also talked about how easy for developer to create a Wordpress plug-in and how these millions of plug-ins can contribute to the performance issue by introducing redundancies: multiple and identical javascript file inclusions in the HTML header. Therefore Wordpress created a new function for plug-in developers as a way to eliminate these redundancies.
Interesting issue he raised is also on his experience when Wordpress made a total revamp of its user interface and apparently they faced a lot of issues when viewed on Internet Explorer which I believe most web developers have been having as a painful and frustrating task which we are forced to conform :P.
He also highlighted a few times on his favourite quote by Joe Clark that reads “We’ve upped our standards, up yours” which was coined at the beginning of the adoption of web standards. Anyway, check the video below for a full coverage of his talk.
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