Looking to increase the speed and performance of your web site?  Well, the friendly folks at Yahoo! have some great tips and tools to help you build web sites with.

The tips include 13 rules for making web sites faster:

  1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
  2. Use a Content Delivery Network
  3. Add an Expires Header
  4. Gzip Components
  5. Put CSS at the Top
  6. Move Scripts to the Bottom
  7. Avoid CSS Expressions
  8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
  9. Reduce DNS Lookups
  10. Minify JavaScript
  11. Avoid Redirects
  12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
  13. Configure ETags

The tool they provide you with is an awesome FireFox Add-On called YSlow.  According to the exceptional performance team at Yahoo!


YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. We are releasing YSlow on Wednesday July 25th at OSCon. This tool has helped improve the performance on over 50 Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. We’re pleased to be able to share this with the development community so that others can join us in accelerating the user experience on the web!

YSlow provides you with an overall performance grade for your web site along with a grade for each of 13 rules for exceptional performance.  This tool is really handy to analyze the load your web site might be placing upon your server as well as your valuable users.  Thanks Yahoo!, keep the great resources coming.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am.
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