Did you know that 80% to 90% of the user's page-load time comes from components outside the firewall? Optimizing performance on the front end (e.g. from the client side) can enhance the user experience by reducing the response times of your web pages and making them load and render much faster.

Why you might need it: Although your site's response time may appear quick when it is accessed via an internet connection from a location close to the data center, you should also consider the experience for other users:

• Any mobile users accessing your site have to rely on relatively slow connections with high latency.
• Other people may be traveling, frustrated while they're waiting for the site to load because of an overcrowded wireless connection in the airport or a slow mobile phone connection.
• People accessing web site from more remote locations throughout the world inevitably suffer from increased connection latency and often high packet loss.

In addition, render time can be very long even on a fast network connection. The page design and the way you use CSS, JavaScript and other technologies can delay rendering much longer than necessary. The result is a poor user experience. Extensive testing has confirmed the relationship between this and the site's financial performance.

By examining log files, we can identify what the user experience is for your site.

Front end optimization can help reduce the amount of traffic required; and thus, reduce hosting charges. An optimized system also means you can use less hardware for serving the traffic both on front end/cache servers as well as back end servers.

Package: A consultant will perform a detailed audit of your web site from the front end performance point of view. We'll take a look at your web pages in terms of HTTP effectiveness and client-side performance, CSS stylesheet composition, Javascript composition, compression of images, cookies, Web/Proxy Server architecture, HTTP log files, DNS configuration. We'll also check to see whether it's possible to apply CDN technologies. We'll work remotely and provide a report with recommended changes and some optimized examples of your web pages. You can view an example of an audit report here.