Steve Souders
Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets and why ETags disable browser caching. In this talk I'll go in-depth on these best practices and the research behind them. I'll also demonstrate YSlow and do some live performance analysis of popular web sites.
Relevant links:
Exceptional Performance: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Cuzillion: Web Performance Exploration Tool
Steve Souders, member of the performance group at Google, has released a new open source tool called Cuzillion. The tool let's you explore performance issues with Web pages, and Steve sat down to show us how it works, and how he found an issue with Orkut.
Google I/O 2008 - Even Faster Websites
Now working at Google, Steve discusses the next set of best practices he's discovered, including the impact of iframes and where to place (and where not to place) inline script blocks.