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Cached, PHP generated Thumbnails load slow: How to find problem/solution from Waterfall graphs?

Question Part A ▉ (100 bountys, awarded) Main question was how to make this site, load faster. First we needed to read these waterfalls. Thanks all for your suggestions on the waterfall readout analysis. Evident from the various waterfall graphs shown here is the main bottleneck: the PHP-generated thumbnails. The protocol-less jquery loading from CDN advised by David got my bounty, albeit making my site only 3% faster overall, and while not answering the site's main bottleneck. Time for for clarification of my question, and, another bounty:

UTF-8 all the way through

I'm setting up a new server, and want to support UTF-8 fully in my web application. I have tried in the past on existing servers and always seem to end up having to fall back to ISO-8859-1.

How does Facebook achieve good performance?

Almost everyone has a Facebook account, even people who are not familiar with the Internet. With millions people actively using Facebook, updating their status, replying to messages, uploading photos and so on, how is Facebook's page still loading very fast?

What is ":-!!' in C code?

I bumped into this strange macro code in /usr/include/linux/kernel.h : /* Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a result (of value 0 and type size_t), so the expression can be used e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions aren't permitted). */ #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); })) #define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void *)sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); }))

How to manage a redirect request after a jQuery Ajax call

Im using $.post() to call a Servlet using Ajax and then use the resulting HTML fragment to replace a div element in the User's current page. However, if the session timeouts the server sends a redirect directive to send the user to the login page. Nonetheless, JQuery is replacing the div element with the contents of the login page, forcing the user's eyes to witness a rare scene indeed.