Talks to Watch

High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

90K views · Nov 16, 2007 · 1:00:34 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2009

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: 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.”HN comment, 2009

What Hacker News said 3

Strongly recommendsteejFeb 2009

“It's awesome.”

Talk on YSlow for reducing load and render time

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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
Strongly recommendspatio11Jul 2009

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

Talk on high performance web sites and YSlow practical rules

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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
Cites itnopMay 2009

“Hes given two talks at google on the subject that the course covers”

Google talks covering the course's subject

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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