Performance Impacts of AJAX Development
Using AJAX to Improve the Bandwidth Performance of Web Applications
Being a performance company, we are always interested in the impact of new development techniques on the performance of web applications. We have numerous customers who have performance problems due primarily to the size of their web pages. Put another way – the pages are simply too big to achieve the desired performance goals with the available bandwidth. In some cases, the page consists primarily of content that is common between many pages. For instance, a header, footer and navigation menu that change infrequently, if at all, during the use of the application. This suggested that if the application was only updating the part of the page that needed to change, a considerable amount of bandwidth could be saved.
