During its thirty years of existence, the World Wide Web has helped to transform the world and create digital economies. Although it started as a global information exchange, it has become the most significant available application platform on top of its initial target. One of the side effects of this evolution was perhaps suboptimal ways to deliver content over the web, leading to wasted resources and business through lost conversions. Technically speaking, there are many ways to improve the performance of web applications. In this article, we examine the currently available options and the latest trends related to improving web application performance.

翻译：自诞生三十年以来，万维网（World Wide Web）推动了世界变革并催生了数字经济。尽管其最初定位是全球信息交换平台，但已发展成为基于原始目标之上最重要的应用平台。这一演进带来的副作用或许是网络内容交付方式未能达到最优，导致资源浪费及因转化率流失造成的商业损失。从技术角度而言，存在多种提升Web应用性能的途径。本文系统考察了当前可用的优化方案及提升Web应用性能的最新发展趋势。