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Buyer's guide: Web site acceleration

Posted: 06.11.01

Web site acceleration tools come in many flavors. Inside this Buyer's Guide:

Slow speed kills   -- internal link here --
Boost your Web site performance with the five Cs: caching, compression, CPU optimization, CDNs and client software.

 Add some PEP to your Web site
Performance-enhancing proxies can accelerate content delivery.

Review: Use only as directed   -- internal link here --
Tread carefully before rolling out dynamic content caching products.

How we did it   -- internal link here --
Our testing methods explained.

Interactive Buyer's Guide
Includes more than 90 entries on products that can speed up your site, everything from caching hardware and software to SSL off-loaders.

The promise of FineGround   -- internal link here --
We decided to cover the Condenser separately because it takes a radically different approach to content acceleration than the other products discussed.

Scorecard and NetResults   -- internal link here --
Check out how these dynamic content caching products scored in our tests.

Originally published on Network World, Published: June 11, 2001.

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Headquartered in San Diego since 1994, PINT Inc. (http://www.pint.com ) is a nationally recognized interactive Web agency providing web strategy, interactive design, development, user experience, analytics, search marketing, and optimization to global companies and institutions. PINT founder Thomas Powell is the author of eleven best-selling industry textbooks on HTML and Web design. Clients include San Diego Chargers, ViewSonic, Hewlett-Packard, Allergan, Biogen Idec, UCSD, Linksys, Scripps Health, and USC. For updates and information about PINT and the Web, please subscribe to the PINT blog at http://blog.pint.com and follow PINT on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PINTSD