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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

52 points by david_xia 15y ago

orijing 15y ago
Not to be a troll but how much of that is patented by Yahoo? If its recent threat to sue Facebook is any indication, "Methods to reduce HTTP requests" could be one of its patents that it's willing to wield.
- j4ck 15y ago
  Not to sound offensive, but looks like you really don't understand how the web works. Btw, like someone just pointed out - YSlow (A tool that has all these rules) was just open sourced under the BSD license by Yahoo! - http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/02/welcome-yslow-open-source/ http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/02/welcome-y...
gsa 15y ago
Or install YSlow [1] to get suggestions right in your browser. [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
joshfraser 15y ago
While the principles still hold true, I think the Google Best Practices are a little more up to date: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.htm... There are also companies that can automate these best practices for you. Check out my company, http://torbit.com http://torbit.com for example.
- postscapes1 15y ago
  Are you guys mostly focused on larger sites right now? Is pricing in the same ballpark as a Cloudflare type service?
  - joshfraser 15y ago
    we're mostly focused on large enterprise customers where speed is actually quantifiable in dollars.
- chipz 15y ago
  Yes, I once installed Google's page-speed to suggest and reduce our company's slow website. Still the best one out there I think.
philjones88 15y ago
A website tool I saw linked in the comments of another article on hacker news is: http://gtmetrix.com http://gtmetrix.com It does PageSpeed + YSlow + other stuff. Saves me having to run both tools in my browser and it combines all the output into a nice interface with the ability to send my client a PDF to talk about small tweaks we could make.
- zyeljanee 15y ago
  In addation it also saves you time. Think of a business where you have soo many clients.Fast website will work miracles when handling all your data.
- chalst 15y ago
  Good tool. I note that it puts a lot of weight on Css minification, which I don't like (I value the readability of HTML/CSS seen through curl) and doubt the value of with reasonably clean, lean source HTML. About half of the grade Fs on my sites come from this. The others need fixing.
alexchamberlain 15y ago
Use GET instead of POST. How rediculous. Use whichever is appropriate, as well as PUT and DELETE.
sreyaNotfilc 15y ago
Now remember kids, this should be applied to already existing website. When developing, use whatever works so you can ship. That's why we have updates and maintenance developers. I'm not saying be as sloppy as possible, but if you sweat the small stuff, not much will happen.
Teapot 15y ago
Extra tip. Use JavaScript to load things on demand. For example, make Buttons to load embedded Youtube videos. (Btw, whatever happened to 2-Click Facebook buttons? They didnt catch on)

52 points by david_xia 15y ago

Not to be a troll but how much of that is patented by Yahoo? If its recent threat to sue Facebook is any indication, "Methods to reduce HTTP requests" could be one of its patents that it's willing to wield.

j4ck 15y ago
Not to sound offensive, but looks like you really don't understand how the web works. Btw, like someone just pointed out - YSlow (A tool that has all these rules) was just open sourced under the BSD license by Yahoo! - http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/02/welcome-yslow-open-source/ http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/02/welcome-y...

gsa 15y ago

Or install YSlow [1] to get suggestions right in your browser. [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

joshfraser 15y ago

While the principles still hold true, I think the Google Best Practices are a little more up to date: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.htm... There are also companies that can automate these best practices for you. Check out my company, http://torbit.com http://torbit.com for example.

postscapes1 15y ago
Are you guys mostly focused on larger sites right now? Is pricing in the same ballpark as a Cloudflare type service?
- joshfraser 15y ago
  we're mostly focused on large enterprise customers where speed is actually quantifiable in dollars.
chipz 15y ago
Yes, I once installed Google's page-speed to suggest and reduce our company's slow website. Still the best one out there I think.

philjones88 15y ago

A website tool I saw linked in the comments of another article on hacker news is: http://gtmetrix.com http://gtmetrix.com It does PageSpeed + YSlow + other stuff. Saves me having to run both tools in my browser and it combines all the output into a nice interface with the ability to send my client a PDF to talk about small tweaks we could make.

zyeljanee 15y ago
In addation it also saves you time. Think of a business where you have soo many clients.Fast website will work miracles when handling all your data.
chalst 15y ago
Good tool. I note that it puts a lot of weight on Css minification, which I don't like (I value the readability of HTML/CSS seen through curl) and doubt the value of with reasonably clean, lean source HTML. About half of the grade Fs on my sites come from this. The others need fixing.

alexchamberlain 15y ago

Use GET instead of POST. How rediculous. Use whichever is appropriate, as well as PUT and DELETE.

sreyaNotfilc 15y ago

Now remember kids, this should be applied to already existing website. When developing, use whatever works so you can ship. That's why we have updates and maintenance developers. I'm not saying be as sloppy as possible, but if you sweat the small stuff, not much will happen.

Teapot 15y ago

Extra tip. Use JavaScript to load things on demand. For example, make Buttons to load embedded Youtube videos. (Btw, whatever happened to 2-Click Facebook buttons? They didnt catch on)