Chapter 1. High Level Diagnosis

Being responsible for a site with slowly loading pages is simply not good. Having twitchy managers look over your shoulder, angry phone calls from advertisers, and other such nastiness is simply no fun. Unfortunately, it can happen to even the best developer—one day your site is cruising along just fine and the next morning, it is really slow. Of course, it may not be completely your fault. Moving the site to that cheap hosting plan may have a bearing on it, or the advertising campaign that marketing just launched without telling you, driving massive traffic to the site. In the end, it doesn't matter—all eyes are on you to make the site faster, and do it quickly. Of course, if you slip in performance improvements ...

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