One reason I’ve been writing about performance this year is so that I can better learn how to improve the performance of this site. There were changes I knew I should make before starting, like enabling a caching plugin. I used to have one setup, but somehow left it behind the last time I moved to a new host.
Tag: DNS
How To Leverage DNS Caching
One of the recurring themes in this series and many articles about performance is caching. Serving cached content often leads to significant performance improvements as it saves round trips and thus time over a network.
How DNS Lookups Affect Website Performance
Resolving a domain name into an IP address is probably not a performance bottleneck for your site. To be honest, there are limited performance gains to be had with DNS lookups. That said, I think there are some good reasons to understand DNS better both in general and in terms of performance.