Performance Optimization of A Story Portal

The project involved optimizing the performance of an emerging story portal for higher traffic and reducing bandwidth for download at the visitor's side.

"... made lots of efforts to meet the project goals, ...was very cooperative and responsive." (Avi Katz, Owner of the Story Portal)

• Situation/ Problem

  The story portal was already built and needed performance optimization.

• Solutions

  We analyzed various aspects of optimization mechanism after testing the performance status of website with our proprietary testing tools. Then we focussed on reducing number of http-requests, compressing CSS and Javascript, reducing the size of background images with CSS sprites, and minifying Javascript. The task is divided into four items:

  • Activating Apache http compression.
  • Reducing the number of http calls per page by utilizing run-time aggregation and cache of Javascript/CSS.
  • Enabling cache for content, images and scripts.
  • Enhancing usability during the slowed download and supporting image caching.

  We also enabled a server-side cache to save load on database.

• Results

  The website was a lot more fast and loaded quickly. The client is now able to use the website for online publishing successfully.