AJAX continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance,
and developers are increasingly treating AJAX as a must-have component for
their Web applications. As more code is moved client-side and the network
model changes, the community is responding by building tools to address the
unique performance challenges of AJAX. This article provides a working
introduction to these tools and their use evaluating the performance of an
AJAX application.
Developing AJAX applications is hard. For developers familiar with
traditional Web applications, the transition to AJAX presents a wealth of
creative opportunities but is also fraught with potential disaster. In
particular, it's easy to write rich, interactive applications that are
dreadfully slow. To avoid this fate, aspiring AJAX developers should embrace
performance as a feature of the application, not so... (more)