I bring you Google's Thirteen Commandments for SpeedyPage Loads! ~ Ask The Admin

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I bring you Google's Thirteen Commandments for SpeedyPage Loads!


If you remember AskTheAdmin did a piece on how to diagnose a slow loading website. Now it looks like the masterminds over @ yahoo have not only compiled the thirteen commandments of fast loading web page loadage but have also brought you a firefox plugin (YSlow) to run on top of firebug. You remember firebug right? That was one of our readers suggestions and has turned into a favorite of ours over here.


So here is the gist of the post for you lazy end users out there:

These tools will give you a letter grade depending on how well you are upholding the 13 rules they have brought forth. Thats right a letter grade - you remember letter grades right? Let's hope you website does better than you did in grade school.


[Exceptional Performance Team]

using this plus http://www.websiteoptimization.com got AtA down to 11.6 seconds and half of that is feedburner and spotback- what do you think??