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Buyer's guide: Web site acceleration

Posted: 06.11.01

Web site acceleration tools come in many flavors. Inside this Buyer's Guide:

Slow speed kills   -- internal link here --
Boost your Web site performance with the five Cs: caching, compression, CPU optimization, CDNs and client software.

 Add some PEP to your Web site
Performance-enhancing proxies can accelerate content delivery.

Review: Use only as directed   -- internal link here --
Tread carefully before rolling out dynamic content caching products.

How we did it   -- internal link here --
Our testing methods explained.

Interactive Buyer's Guide
Includes more than 90 entries on products that can speed up your site, everything from caching hardware and software to SSL off-loaders.

The promise of FineGround   -- internal link here --
We decided to cover the Condenser separately because it takes a radically different approach to content acceleration than the other products discussed.

Scorecard and NetResults   -- internal link here --
Check out how these dynamic content caching products scored in our tests.

Originally published on Network World, Published: June 11, 2001.

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