That's silly. Often when giving advice on complex issues your simply providing a heuristic. Start here, there might be some edge cases involved but 95% of the time this is the way to go.
Most of the advice they gave was mostly affecting performance for a single user, not performance of the site for scaling to many users. Only the number of requests for javascript files actually would affect the scaling of the site and not much since they are just static files.
I didn't confuse them - I explicitly distinguished between them. Scalability is a category of performance - it is performance at scale. Most of these suggestions may help with individual browser loading - but will not make a significant difference in scalability. However, the pretense for the investigation was the high level of traffic that was imminent - a scalability challenge.
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That however makes me skip their advice forever.
That's silly. Often when giving advice on complex issues your simply providing a heuristic. Start here, there might be some edge cases involved but 95% of the time this is the way to go.
I am ignoring your advice due to your grammatical mistake.
I did not give advice.
There site may just not be worth optimizing, as i's not as popular as apple.com
Most of the advice they gave was mostly affecting performance for a single user, not performance of the site for scaling to many users. Only the number of requests for javascript files actually would affect the scaling of the site and not much since they are just static files.
You're confusing performance and scalability.
You can have a slow-loading site that will scale to hundreds of millions of users.
You can have a very fast site that will die under a thousand users.
I didn't confuse them - I explicitly distinguished between them. Scalability is a category of performance - it is performance at scale. Most of these suggestions may help with individual browser loading - but will not make a significant difference in scalability. However, the pretense for the investigation was the high level of traffic that was imminent - a scalability challenge.