In the following twenty-two posts, I will look into all the rules in YSlow. This is a pretty comprehensive plan, but I will try to keep the posts short and precise. All rules are pretty good documented in the YSlow documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. I…
In the last three posts, I’ve looked at tools for optimizing performance on a website. This week I will show you a nice performance-related feature in Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools is a free tool from Google that provides different tools for webmasters, such as submitting a sitemap,…
In the two previous posts, I’ve covered different plugins for Firefox. Even though web developers still seem to prefer Firefox over Chrome, a lot of us (me inclusive) switched to Chrome. Luckily Google does a pretty decent performance optimization extension for Chrome as well. The extension is Google Speed…
Page Speed is a plug-in developed for Firebug by Google. If you don’t use Firebug, get it (http://getfirebug.com/)! It’s the coolest web developer plug-in for Firefox out there. The Page Speed tool is downloaded from http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html. Google Page Speed…
So how do you spot if your site has performance issues or not? You probably have an idea if your site is responsive or not, but how does it compare to other sites, and which potential problems do you have? This is a starter’s guide to some of the…