Tag Archives: Fixit
Fixit – Image Sprites
January 8, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page make use of image sprites. Grouping multiple images into one image sprite drastically speeds up delivery and load time. When many images are used independently many network requests are required to download them all, an image sprite combines the images into a single file which can then be cut-up using CSS... Read More
Fixit – Favicon
January 8, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has a Favicon which is a suitable size and is delivered with a far-future expiry header. All browsers will request a Favicon on page load and so it is recommended to have one, but also one which is small enough to transfer quickly and which can be cached properly... Read More
Fixit – Content Distribution Network
January 8, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test attempts to determine if your page makes use of a CDN, content distribution network. A CDN allows static content to be stored in multiple geographic locations, so that when the content is requested by a user's browser it can be retrieved from a location as close as possible to the user. This geographic proximity increases delivery speed and in turn page load speed... Read More
Fixit – Image Resizing
February 7, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Images such as bitmaps have an intrinsic pixel size. Telling the browser in advance what the size is avoids it having to re-flow the page when it receives it. Resizing images at the server reduces the amount of data transferred and the amount of processing the client has to carry out to scale the image... Read More
Fixit – Measures
February 4, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Avoiding pixel and absolute measures allows the browser to adapt content to fit the display, though there are exceptions to this rule (see below). This test checks for the use of absolulte and pixel measures where relative measures would be more appropriate... Read More
