References and Resources

Here you can find a regularly updated list of references and resources used in my bachelor thesis. You can also find my publicly saved bookmarks of various sites I’m reading and visiting at my Delicious Profile (try to filter by tags, looking for web performance and bachelor thesis).

General

• Average Web Page Loading Times By Industry
• Usage statistics and market share of PHP-based websites

Nginx and Apache HTTP

• Nginx web server homepage
• Nginx documentation
• Nginx on WordPress.org
• Nginx and WordPress with FastCGI cache and conditional purging
• Optimizing Nginx for high traffic loads

• Nginx Configuration Pitfalls (common mistakes)

• Apache HTTP documentation

• Apache HTTP web server homepage

HHVM and PHP

• HHVM homepage
• Hack and HHVM docs
• HHVM runtime options

Databases and Storages

• WordPress and Memcached

WordPress Performance Optimization

Plugins Related

• W3 Total Cache
• W3 Total Cache Optimal Settings
• W3 Total Cache with Nginx and Caching

Themes and Plugins Development Related

• WordPress Object Cache
• WordPress Transients API
• WordPress functions reference

Tools (Benchmarking, Profiling) and Articles

• GTmetrix
• Google PageSpeed
• Chrome Dev Tools
• XHProf Profiler
• WordPress Performance Comparison: Nginx, Apache, PHP APC, Varnish

Other

• How to format technical articles for publication
• Markdown quick reference
• Example configurations of HHVM-Nginx-MariaDB-WordPress