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Performance First Aid: Make it even slower

The servers are overloaded, and everything grinds down to a sluggish horror. What now?

If you’re able to pinpoint performance problems down to a single or a few request types, you can try to manipulate the allocation of the requests on the application parts. The goal is to reduce requests on the trouble makers.

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Performance First Aid: Basics

If your web application suffers from severe slowdowns, these 5 steps will help you to understand the areas of improvement that can have a drastically effect. This is especially true with older applications that didn’t get “web performance” built in by design.
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