some stuff

I was searching for rails caching tutorials and ran into this really nice set of video tutorials about scaling rails applications on newrelic. I just watched the first video which has some neat tricks on how to improve the page load time. I ran some tests on thecollegestuff.com and here are the stats.

1. According to firebug, the site load time is 3.5 seconds and the breakdown is as follows

2. Then the tutorial mentioned about yslow and how to use it to collect some stats. Here is the output from yslow.

Ugh .. my site has a rating F!

Over the next few days, I will try to implement all the things suggested in the tutorials. Let’s see how much improvement I will get out of it.

Have a nice day!
Mahesh Murthy