My Programming Journey
A personal journey through the evolution of programming, from the early days of DOS and BASIC to the current age of AI-assisted coding.
RFC 9460
Introducing SVCB and HTTPS records in DNS and their impact on web connectivity.
Useful tips to accelerate your Magento store
There are many things you can do to speed up your Magento store, here are just a few.
Down But Not Out - JXL Will Return on Safari
What Apple's announcement of JPEG-XL support means for the web ecosystem.
Understanding HTTP Link Headers
HTTP Link headers are a relatively unknown but powerful way to improve page load times.
The Death of JPEG-XL
We bid farewell to JPEG-XL after its abrupt deprecation by Google, reinforcing the tech giant's domineering influence over the web and sparking a call for resilient alternatives.
Chrome's TLS Extension Randomisation Experiment
Does TLS extension randomisation assist in hiding Chrome?
TLS Fingerprinting
What is fingerprinting, and in particular TLS fingerprinting?
Automatic Image Optimisation
Image optimisation saves you bandwidth and designer effort while reduces page load time.
Drupal full page caching module
We're excited to announce our Drupal 8/9 caching module, read on for more details.
Origin shield
Origin shield is a CDN must have feature that increases your Cache Hit Rate by consolidating requests from POPs.
CDN Cache Keys
Cache keys allows the segmenting of the Peakhour.IO cache by elements of both the request and response, enabling effective and flexible caching of content.
Request collapsing
Request collapsing - saving your origin by reducing concurrent requests and re-using responses for resources.
Cache-Status
Cache-Status is a proposed standard header to provide visibility into how caching providers interact and handle a request.
Common Issues That Affect Website Performance
After covering testing we're going to get an overview of the common issues that impact website load times and how to check for them.
AVIF Support For Automatic Image Optimisation
AVIF is a next generation image format with early support in Chrome and Firefox. Peakhour is pleased to offer AVIF as a supported format to our clients.
Website Performance testing with WebPageTest.org
In this installment of our website performance series we're taking a look at webpagetest.org, one of the best tools you can use to analyse real world performance of your website.
Is your website obese?
An introduction to page weight, what it is and how you can reduce it.