I have designed a new web site. I have hosted it online. I want it to be of the best performance and load pages faster.
This website is designed in php 5.0+ using codeigniter. This is using mysql as DB. I have images on it. I am using Nitobi grid for displaying set of records on page. The rest is everything normal page controls.
As i am not so very experienced with website performance factors i would like to get suggestions and details on factors that can improve performance of website. Please let me know how i can improve my performance.
Also please let me know if there are any ways to measure the performance of website and also any websites or tools to help test the performance.
To start, get Firefox and Firebug and then install YSlow. YSlow gives great information about the client-side performance of the website in question. Here’s an User Guide.
For the server-side performance, have a look at Apache JMeter.