Progressive JPEGs and web performance

Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice

Interesting article on web and mobile performance with regard to rendering and display of JPEG images.

Progressive JPEG FAQ:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-11.html

The article also gives ways to identify a progressive JPEG and a way to convert baseline JPEGs to progressive JPEGs.

And the comments, both on the original article, and in this HN thread about it (  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4983073  ), are informative too.

Google mod_pagespeed, which I blogged about recently, has support for progressive JPEGs.

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Google mod_pagespeed

New mod_pagespeed: cache advances, progressive JPEGs - Google Developers Blog

Caching is one big way to improve performance, but there are other ways too.

mod_pagespeed uses many ways.

Yottaa, anti-lean process to speed up web sites

http://m.xconomy.com/5097/show/7f303a92bfc957ef57b11f7ddb4ec96f/

Yottaa is using an "anti-lean" approach to building infrastructure software to speed up clients' web sites. Akamai is sort of a competitor. Akamai recently acquired Blaze Software (blaze.io) which I blogged about earlier.

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com