I just finished the 4th and last entry of my series "Wicket Interface Speed-Up" on my blog. To give a short summary: I investigated one of my apps with YSlow and started optimizing it's interface rendering speed [1]. Especially Wicket's way of handling resources, i.e. JS and CSS files, causes interfaces to load rather slowly. In my articles, I explain how to modify the cache interval [2], how to mount resources with a version (e.g. /css/all-1234.css) in order to use aggressive client-side caching (e.g. resources expire after a year) [3]. Finally, I show how to merge resources at application startup (using a class classed MergedResourceStream) to reduce the number of resources a client has to download [4], including code). I was able to increase interface loading times considerably, so it's surely worth a look.
I feel that it would also be worth to discuss, whether this work could be part of upcoming Wicket versions. For the time being I'd like to make the code attached to [4] a wicketstuff project - sfussenegger needs commit access ;) - and wait for your feedback. The links: [1] http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com/2008/08/wicket-interface-speed-up.html Wicket Interface Speed-Up [2] http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com/2008/08/wicket-interface-speed-up-modifying.html Wicket Interface Speed-Up: Modifying Expires and Cache-Control Headers [3] http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com/2008/08/wicket-interface-speed-up-caching.html Wicket Interface Speed-Up: Caching Resources Forever [4] http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com/2008/08/wicket-interface-speed-up-merging.html Wicket Interface Speed-Up: Merging Resources for Fewer HTTP Requests ----- ------- Stefan Fußenegger http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com // looking for a nicer domain ;) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Discussion-on-%22Wicket-Interface-Speed-Up%22-tp19197540p19197540.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
