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High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Google TechTalks · 89.7K views · 2007-11-16 · 1:00:34

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2009–2009

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Web developmentSoftware performance & optimization
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What people said

patio11 · 2009-07 · Strong recommendation

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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teej · 2009-02 · Strong recommendation

[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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nop · 2009-05 · Reference

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]

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