Before we begin, this article is written for somebody with a moderate to high-level technical understanding. This is not a step by step tutorial on how to boost website performance, but rather its an information piece designed to give high-level management people a glimpse into how website performance works and how it can affect your organization’s technology.

Designing and developing for the web is, in many ways, easier today than it was when the web first launched. Even though there was less functionality on websites 25 years ago, there also were no tools to help non-programmers navigate the creation of a page.