Chapter 3: Quick Snacks
This chapter lists a selection of tasty yet simple, practical, and cost-effective performance solutions that can be implemented on any site within a few minutes. It’s best to read the following sections in order, since they start with simpler hosting and server settings before moving on to quick image, CSS, and JavaScript improvements.
Consider Your Hosting Plan
Hosting will affect the performance of your website or application. The range of choices and prices may be bewildering, but hosting services are segregated into four primary types.
Shared Hosting
Your website is hosted on a physical server alongside hundreds, if not thousands, of other sites. Each customer shares resources, so disk space, RAM, CPU time, and other ...
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