Performance

Web Performance using CDNs, Async, and Defer

by Lee Napthine, 30 November 2024

On the ZooDB project I was tasked with looking into the case for and against using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) rather than the locally hosted frameworks we had currently set up. A decision was made to try them along with their async and defer script attributes to determine whether web performance increased and in which areas.

Strategies to increase Django performance

by Bhavy Rai, 1 March 2024

We found as development on ZooDB progressed and the amount of data involved increased, especially with intricate queries involved in each view, page loads became slower than we'd like. In this blog post we describe some of the strategies we used to improve performance.