Have you seen YSlow? It is a Firefox plugin that extends Firebug’s functionality to show some interesting information, such as page load times, and the heaviest parts of the site. You can use the information gathered to increase performance on your sites. Here’s an 8-minute video presentation on YSlow by Jeremy Zawodny, who was at Yahoo! when I was there. yourcontentfactory.com, which admittedly a work-in-progress, scored only a 64. Humbling, as are the scores of many of the sites that we know and manage. If you already have Firebug and like it, then you’ll love Yslow.
I said “suck” above to get your attention. There are many ways to suck– your product or service sucks, your design sucks, your customer service sucks, or whatever. But you should never suck because your site loads slow or has coding issues.
Update: Perhaps the most common culprit we see that is an easy fix is to not compress images. That will often balloon the page to 1 MB.
Dennis Yu
Dennis Yu is co-author of the #1 best selling book on Amazon in social media, The Definitive Guide to TikTok Ads. He has spent a billion dollars on Facebook ads across his agencies and agencies he advises. Mr. Yu is the "million jobs" guy-- on a mission to create one million jobs via hands-on social media training, partnering with universities and professional organizations.
You can find him quoted in major publications and on television such as CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and LA Times. Clients have included Nike, Red Bull, the Golden State Warriors, Ashley Furniture, Quiznos-- down to local service businesses like real estate agents and dentists. He's spoken at over 750 conferences in 20 countries, having flown over 6 million miles in the last 30 years to train up young adults and business owners. He speaks for free as long as the organization believes in the job-creation mission and covers business class travel.
You can find him hiking tall mountains, eating chicken wings, and taking Kaqun oxygen baths-- likely in a city near you.
