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I second that idea. That would be a blast. Give us a zip file with a working (but unoptimized) site and let us at it. Fastest implementation wins. Rob ... -- ...
http://css-sprite-generator.waltercedric.com/ I have found that one to be a slightly better option and is actually based on the one recommended earlier by...
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#flush Implementing my upcoming site I have gone through this very helpful set of guidelines and found myself...
... With "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header you can send compressed contents in more parts. Also, consider using ob_flush() alongside flush() so that the...
It looks like Smush.it is down again. I'm getting 'No such file or directory in /mnt/local/home/smushit/imgopt.com/Smushit.lib.php on line 306' I understand...
thanks dereck009 with your words I went out searching for more and found this page: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/05/18/flushing-the-document-early/ ...
I gather that the developers are working hard to bring YSlow up to date to run on FireFox 3.5 but some word would help. We currently use YSlow to create a...
Hey Mark, I¹m no longer on the YSlow team, so I cannot speak for them, but I know they¹re on it. Meanwhile you can work around the compatibility checks to ...
Just like Stoyan, I don't work on YSlow either, so don't consider my word as official, however out of curiosity, I did try playing around with the code a bit...
The YSlow team is working hard to bring YSlow run on Firefox 3.5. The team has run into some integration issues with firebug 1.4. A new version will be...
I just pushed an update that changes the behavior of how the "Start Render" measurement works. It used to mark the time at which something could display on...
I've asked a few times before about the old smush.it site, which I understand is deprecated. Can I hook into http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ws.php (e.g....
I have two questions about YSlow. Q1) I use @import in my stylesheets. I know the stylesheets are loading correctly in the browser, but YSlow says it is a 404....
No idea about your CSS issues, but for the CDN, just enter your site domain in the extensions.firebug.yslow.cdnHostnames config variable (about:config)...
... not sure about the answer to the above, but which search are you referring to? ... Which version of YSlow are you using? The 2.x versions allow you to ...
I tried pointing YSlow 2.0.0b4 using YSlow V2 rulesets to evaluate riktor.com, and it told me the following, which I suspect is not true... ... Grade C on...
The point is that ETag's aren't necessary for static content and (generally) shouldn't be used because the configuration can easily be messed up. Unless I'm...
I will say thank you! I am eagerly awaiting the newest release, as your plugin was suggested by SitePoint for my use. Keep up the good work, and I look forward...
Pat, Yeah, I think you have the headers confused. For each transaction (the first is the default text/html web page, the second is the "new-logo.gif" image,...
Why do you think that ETags aren't necessary for static content? Not, that I'm saying they ARE necessary for static content, but where should they be...
There is an academic paper that discusses this issue, but I must confess that I don't agree with the author's analysis. My opinion is that The Right Way(TM) to...
For static content, Etags duplicate the functionality of Last-Modified. That in itself is wasteful of bandwidth and a tiny bit of processing overhead. Etags...