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High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

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2 HN users recommended this talk2 months2009 score 3
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Praised as solid, research-backed advice on front-end web performance.

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.

“Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold.” (HN, 2009)

2 strong recommendations · 1 citations · Talks · intermediate · partly dated

3 Hacker News comments

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@patio11 Jul 2009 Strongly recommends
on HN thread Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
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]
Talk on high performance web sites and YSlow practical rules

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@nop May 2009 Cites it
on HN thread Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video]
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]
Google talks covering the course's subject

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