Torbit – Making Websites Faster
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Torbit – Making Websites Faster
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#2So it's SaaS?
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#3So it's SaaS?
Yeah. It looks like it's basically an almost-no-setup proxy kind of thing.
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#4I can't tell how similar this is to CloudFlare, but it looks close.
That said, CloudFlare actually increased latency by a non-trivial amount, which caused me to abandon it. It may be better now, or it may have worked better on much larger sites, but my 256M slice & Django blog was faster without it.
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#5I think Google has a similar tool freely available, although I can't find it right now. Does anybody know?
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#6I think Google has a similar tool freely available, although I can't find it right now. Does anybody know?
mod_pagespeed?
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#7" but many of these are still not done because they’re annoying and tedious to do and developers are often focused on other things. "
To me, that situation always meant I'd find (or code) a tool to make that happen automatically. Having the right tools for the job always means things go better, both for the developer and the client.
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#8Hi bmelton,
Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websites about 30% faster on average.
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#9Hi bmelton, Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websites about 30% faster on average.
Curious how you measure the improvement you make to your customer sites. Can you explain the methodology?
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#10Hi bmelton, Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websites about 30% faster on average.
You know that you can reply directly to his comment, right?