I talked about YSlow awhile ago and thought it had some interesting things to say, but wasn’t fully convinced it was optimization for the masses (where the masses is pretty much everyone not running a gigantic web site). Fortunately, I recently came across this piece talking about other optimizations you can make to your site [...]

Categories: optimization

The other day I was working with a buddy who was having some difficulty with his site. He had a dark background, but the center columns (with the text) were light. The light background was loading in late because some of the ads on the site were loading in slowly and as a result the [...]

Categories: css · design · optimization · web2.0

Scott pointed out YSlow to me some weeks ago and I’ve been using it every now and again. It’s a Firebug extension that grades you on how well you follow Yahoo’s 13 Rules for a High Performance Website.
Once you’ve added YSlow in you go to the site you want to profile and turn on Firebug [...]

Categories: geekfindr · optimization · yahoo