High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Google TechTalks2 HN recommenders · 2009–2009
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A Google Tech Talk on Yahoo's 14 rules for faster web pages and the YSlow tool. It covers front-end practices like avoiding @import and fixing ETags, with live analysis of popular sites.

Praised as solid, research-backed advice on front-end web performance.

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@teej2009 · in “Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic”

[VIDEO] That link is a talk on YSlow, a tool you can use to lower download speed, render time, and perceived load time. It's awesome.

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@nop2009 · in “Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video]”

Hes given two talks at google on the subject that the course covers: [VIDEO] and [LINK] Silverlight or not I think most of will live without all the secret knowledge contained in those videos unless we want to fork out a $600 tuition fee to see more than three of them according to: [LINK]

@patio112009 · in “Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it”

Watch the YSlow guys and be enlightened. Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold. They are easily the best "Follow these simple directions and you will make money" technical material I've ever seen. video of talk: [VIDEO] slides of another: [LINK]

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