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browser smush.it YSlow 2.0, Page Speed JavaScript: The Good Parts Velocity this past year
how does your web feel?
why? web site owners 1.don't know their web site is slow 2.don't know what is slow 3.don't know how to fix it 4.don't/can't prioritize the fix
my site slow? really?? easy instrumentation – Jiffy + AppEngine community opt-in – a la Alexa trends messaging visualizations – MSFast
what to fix HttpWatch, Firebug Net Panel, Fiddler sample size? non-network – HTML, JS, CSS
how to fix it YSlow, Page Speed, Pagetest, VRTA, neXpert, MSFast sample size? non-network – HTML, JS, CSS backend
prioritizing the fix tradeoffs, ROI Bing: +1 second == -2.8% revenue Google: +400ms == -0.76% searches/user Shopzilla: faster: +7-12% revenue, -50% nodes wow versus infrastructure technical constraints
BHAP single threaded browsers level of difficulty connection speeds mobile ads
things are getting better March 2007 March 2009 future Expires26%93% gzip CSS, JS5/1010/10 sprites2/109/10 minify JS4/109/10 AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google Search, Live Search, MSN, MySpace, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube
don't give up optimize locally think globally cache "compiled" JS multipart downloads prefetching, preferred caching WordPress, PHP, Dreamhost fast-by-default Internet infrastructure