High Performance Web Sites and YSlow on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2009.
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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.
Praised as solid, research-backed advice on front-end web performance.
“Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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: ▶ this video slides of another: [link]
in “Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it” · View on HN
▶ this 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.
in “Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic” · View on HN
Hes given two talks at google on the subject that the course covers: ▶ this 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]
in “Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video]” · View on HN