‘Personas’ Archives
Making getpersonas.com blazing fast
I love speed. I'm a speed fanatic. Fast cars, planes, skydiving, anything involving triple digit MPH. But the thing that I like fast the most is websites. Millisecond response times, content delivery networks, caching, sprites, you name it. In case you didn't already know, Personas (AKA 'lightweight themes') have been integrated into Firefox 3.6. With the impeding tsunami of traffic from millions of Firefox users headed towards getpersonas.com, I knew my time had come. Donning Firebug, YSlow and webpagetest.org, I set out to squeeze every last drop of performance out of it. I knew my work would be painstaking, arduous ... Read More »
