THE VIDEO SHELF · web performance
High Performance Web Sites and YSlow
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 HN readers recommended it
Praised as solid, research-backed advice on front-end web performance.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- web performance
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2009
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
[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.
teej on Hacker News · 2009-02
In Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in trafficWatch 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: …
patio11 on Hacker News · 2009-07
In Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
