I've been optimizing my site's performance by tuning the server-side code and watching how it affects the amount of time Firefox reports as "Waiting". It seems like the "Transferring" time would be optimized by reducing the size of the HTML to download. What about "Looking up" and "Connecting"?
I noticed that if I'm doing a lot of clicking around there is pretty much no time spent with either of those, but if I work on something and then come back to the browser after a bit, Firefox can really spend some time there. I'd imagine that is apache's area. What can I do to minimize the time needed to look up and connect?
- Grant
You can't do a great deal about lookup times for your site's visitors as it's the time it takes their DNS server to resolve your name into an IP address. You can speed it up for yourself by either adding entries into /etc/hosts or installing a caching DNS proxy. I use net-dns/djbdns and it seems to work well.
-- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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