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YSlow

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Ever wonder what you can do to make your site load a little faster, or do you want to know what your talking about when some one asks how to make a site faster?

Well wonder no more. The good people at Yahoo have created a solution.

YSlow is a plugin from Yahoo for firebug (a tool no developer should be without). YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites.

Although most, if not all of these rules will apply to pokey little blogs like this.

The tools include:

  • Performance report card
  • HTTP/HTML summary
  • List of components in the page
  • Tools including JSLint

So go get a copy and make the web a better place!

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  1. Good stuff! I notice how you brushed over the result in the image there - performance grade D :) I don't dare do my blog.
  2. Meh... How does the phrase go? "all good things come to those who wa...
  3. Isn't this completely pointless? The advice it gives you boils down to "Use less stuff" and "Use a better web-server set-up" I can't see the average web developer being up for recompiling Apache with Entity Tags support or shelling out on a Content Delivery Network... and the "Use less stuff" approach is covered in numerous, very short, best practice guides...
  4. Admittedly a lot of it is aimed at larger web sites, but a lot can be learnt about positioning of elements and HTTP requests etc

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