Site performance optimization

I'm trying to improve performance on my website. I used a performance analysis site and it says I should move static content to a cookieless domain. What do cookies have to do with performance?

And any other tips for increasing the speed of a website? I'm thinking I should do some sort of in-memory caching, like Redis or memcached or something? But my hosting has pretty limited RAM.

Should I just go with some free AWS tier for like Elasticache or some shit instead of having everything on-disk on my main hosting?

What programming language is this?

In-memory caching works like a charm for most sites really, how limited is your RAM?

>>2
Quit with the stupid ``web development isn't real programming'' bullshit.
Web development is more useful and also more complicated than making metaprogrammable hello world bullshit in Lisp.
>>3
1GB sadly, though I guess I could pay for a VPS, but I already paid for this dumb managed hosting thing because of the ``it just works'' factor. Sadly, the performance is garbage, even though it was really easy to set up.

>>4
1GB should be enough even for big-ish sites.

well I compressed the shit out of everything and then used a CDN and now it's pretty fast

couldn't be bothered to set up redis or whatever

I feel like manual caching rather than CDN caching as a service is old school boomer shit

What do cookies have to do with performance?

Sending and checking cookies isn't free

>>4

Quit with the stupid ``web development isn't real programming'' bullshit.
Web development is more useful and also more complicated than making metaprogrammable hello world bullshit in Lisp.

The reason people look down on web dev is because it's full of cargo cult programmers who throw one-size-fits-all buzzword solutions at straightforward problems they're just incapable of analysing. I'm sure you're one of the good ones, though.

>>6

well I compressed the shit out of everything and then used a CDN and now it's pretty fast

Oh.

>I feel like manual caching rather than CDN caching as a service is old school boomer shit

yeah maybe for a basic website

>>8
wow you're so cool for being condescending while simultaneously offering nothing of use to the discussion about performance

and CDN isn't a buzzword, you stupid fuck

>>10
This isn't a discussion about performance. You're asking people to read your mind about how your ``web service'' works and pretending that there are magical one-size-fits-all solutions to this sort of thing. That's the fucking point.

If your shitty website is so poorly designed blindly throwing a CDN at it did anything, you can't even begin to reason about performance.

>>12
the CDN I'm using does caching and minifying though

imagine getting mad at someone for using a caching solution

the anti-deb dev boomers here are seriously out of the loop

>>13

solution

Why are you even here?

>>15
What's wrong with my word choice? Why does it trigger you?

>>15
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