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Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the like-i-need-a-plugin-to-tell-me-i-suck dept.

Stoyan writes "Steve Souders, performance architect at Yahoo, announced today the public release of YSlow — a Firefox extension that adds a new panel to Firebug and reports page's performance score in addition to other performance-related features. Here is a review plus helpful tips how to make the scoring system match your needs.

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  1. /. gets a D by LoadWB · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interesting utility. Slashdot gets a D on the homepage, F on a comments page. Many media sites score Fs, mostly thanks to numerous ad and cookie sites.

    1. Re:/. gets a D by JuanCarlosII · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even better than that, http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ gets a D for performance.

  2. Re:Another tool by danbert8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you slashdotted a website efficiency report of Slashdot. Shouldn't that cause a black hole or something?

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  3. F: You are co-located at 365 Main. by jea6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    F: You are co-located at 365 Main.

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