The document discusses page speed and provides tips for optimizing website page speed. It introduces tools like Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow for measuring page speed. It then provides steps on how to use these tools and makes recommendations for improving page speed through image optimization, CSS and JavaScript minification, reducing errors, caching assets, and reducing the number of HTTP requests and third party widgets.
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Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
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Full Guide - https://bitsfrombytes.com/why-is-wordpress-slow/
In this site speed optimization guide, we provide 25-Tips to get blazing fast website speeds of under 0.5s.
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A faster website can help your website in many ways. The faster the website, the lower the bounce rate and the higher the conversions. This mean higher sales, ad revenue and ultimately money.
Here are 10 ways you can speed up your website:
Hosting Provider – Who is hosting your website and how are they hosting it?
Utilize Caching – Page Cache, Database Cache, Object Cache, Browser Cache, Reverse Proxy
Combine CSS and JS files – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Use a CDN -A Content Delivery Network (CDN) will ‘put a rocket behind your static content’
Reduce and Optimize Images – Use CSS3 whenever and wherever possible, save images for web
Use Compression – Save bandwidth and speed up your website
Use Sprites – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Monitor Your Website – CPU usage, Physical Memory, Average Load, Disk I/O utilization, Network I/O
Optimize your Database Regularly – Optimizing database tables regularly will help improve website performance
Mobile and Tablet Optimization – Use CSS3 Media Queries, JS and service-side technology to speed up devices
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HTTP/2 and Service Works are becoming more established, yet the SEO community lacks awareness of what they are what they may mean for us. A lot of us know we need to know about them but we manage to keep putting it off. However, for both of these technologies, the next 12 months are going to be the turning point where we really can't avoid learning more about them. Tom will provide and accessible introduction to both, with a focus on what they are, how they work and what SEOs need to know. If you have been scared of jumping in to them until now, this session will help get you up to speed.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
Optimizing web performance (Fronteers edition)Dave Olsen
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
How to Fix a Slow WordPress Site (and get A+ scores)Lewis Ogden
Full Guide - https://bitsfrombytes.com/why-is-wordpress-slow/
In this site speed optimization guide, we provide 25-Tips to get blazing fast website speeds of under 0.5s.
Need for Speed: Website Edition – Website Optimization Tools and Techniques P...Devin Walker
It requires 50% more concentration when using badly performing website. Make it easier for your users, not harder…
A faster website can help your website in many ways. The faster the website, the lower the bounce rate and the higher the conversions. This mean higher sales, ad revenue and ultimately money.
Here are 10 ways you can speed up your website:
Hosting Provider – Who is hosting your website and how are they hosting it?
Utilize Caching – Page Cache, Database Cache, Object Cache, Browser Cache, Reverse Proxy
Combine CSS and JS files – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Use a CDN -A Content Delivery Network (CDN) will ‘put a rocket behind your static content’
Reduce and Optimize Images – Use CSS3 whenever and wherever possible, save images for web
Use Compression – Save bandwidth and speed up your website
Use Sprites – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Monitor Your Website – CPU usage, Physical Memory, Average Load, Disk I/O utilization, Network I/O
Optimize your Database Regularly – Optimizing database tables regularly will help improve website performance
Mobile and Tablet Optimization – Use CSS3 Media Queries, JS and service-side technology to speed up devices
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Tom Anthony | An Introduction to HTTP/2 & Service...Distilled
HTTP/2 and Service Works are becoming more established, yet the SEO community lacks awareness of what they are what they may mean for us. A lot of us know we need to know about them but we manage to keep putting it off. However, for both of these technologies, the next 12 months are going to be the turning point where we really can't avoid learning more about them. Tom will provide and accessible introduction to both, with a focus on what they are, how they work and what SEOs need to know. If you have been scared of jumping in to them until now, this session will help get you up to speed.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
This presentation is based on the original one from the author of the book ( 'Steve Souders' ), it's about his book titled 'High Performance Websites''
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A presentation from SEO Campixx Barcamp 2011 in Berlin. Web Performance Optimization is about making websites faster. Here i discussed different measures and show the impact on competitive advantage and possibly rankings on Google. Undeniably you can say that better performance leads to more sales and better usability in terms of bouncing rates. View image slides here: http://b0i.de/wpopresentation
With the growth of mobile devices, performance is now more important than ever. But the web is actually getting slower! Fight back by learning how to monitor performance, the critical rendering path and finding where to optimize.
Site speed is a ranking factor in Google, and for good reason. Visitors have a short attention span, and will quickly navigate away from a slow website, especially on mobile. This presentation covers essential tools and techniques for improving your load times and PageSpeed score, such as caching, image optimization, and plugin performance.
Ideal web page performance
How to maximize your content view with minimal attention span of your viewers?
Impact of page performance on Business metrics
Profiling a Http request
Browser Architecture, Critical Rendering Path
Applying FFSUx to get optimal webpage performance.
These are the slides from my talk "Your WebPerf Sucks" at HK CodeConf 2015 (http://hongkong.codeconf.io) at Science Park in Hong Kong, October 24th.
Web Performance is an important aspect of building for the web and this talk highlights different aspects of what is important and what can be done to improve web performance and build faster sites. While mentioning different aspects of possible improvements, the main focus lies on optimising the critical rendering path to get pages on the screen faster and what tools can help to do so.
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
This presentation builds upon Dave’s “Optimization for Mobile” chapter in Smashing Magazine’s “The Mobile Book.”
This talk was given at the Responsive Web Design Summit hosted by Environments for Humans.
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Learn how to migrate your blog from WordPress to HubSpot. We will walk through concepts such as exporting blog from WordPress, importing blog into HubSpot and learning how to set redirects to ensure you don't lose any organic traffic.
There's no question about it. A slow website will cost you sales. WordPress website speed can sometimes be difficult to tackle.
We've put together a guide on improving your WordPress website loading times. Our WordPress speed guide is perfect for those who want to learn how to speed up their WordPress website in 2019.
Let us know what you think!
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Especially in a mobile-first world, fast loading websites are of utmost importance. Also, Google has been very vocal about anything web performance in the last few years and is pushing hard to innovate repeatedly. But performance is so much more! User satisfaction should be the main goal because expectations are clear: You’ve got two to three seconds maximum to deliver, so make it count. During Bastian's SearchLeeds 2018 talk he walked through various advanced topics around web performance optimisation going way beyond Accelerated Mobile Pages (and other short-term solutions) to make any website really, really fast.
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Applications must implement responsive web design strategies today. However most developers are not experienced in responsive techniques. More over images have provided a difficult hurdle for developers and business stakeholders to make responsive.
A proper responsive web design strategy increases return on investment, reduces long term maintenance requirements and improves application performance. Images create many challenges in implementing responsive design.
This session will explain what responsive images are. How new web standards have enabled manageable responsive image practices. We will go over tooling and techniques to enable responsive images in your developer and line of business workflows.
When you leave this session you will have actionable knowledge of responsive images, techniques, tooling and workflow options you can apply to your projects now.
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Your website performance is crucial to its success. It is essential that you analyse your website’s speed and take critical steps to improve performance metrics. If you don’t, If you don’t, not only do you lose visitors, but you might be losing a lot of business as well.
For this reason, WPblog has released a complete guide on WordPress performance optimization where you can learn how to analyse your website speed, and improve its performance.
Source: https://www.wpblog.com/ebook-library/wordpress-performance-optimization
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Progressive enhancement sounds practical, but not for your current project, right? Good news: you’re wrong!
In this session, Aaron will debunk the myths that often preclude individuals and organizations from embracing progressive enhancement and demonstrate solid techniques for applying progressive enhancement in your work.
By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with
* a better sense of the devices people are using to access the Web,
* a framework for envisioning experience as a continuum, and
* a solid understanding of how to improve the accessibility and reach of your Web projects.
Come find out why progressive enhancement isn’t just for “content” sites (whatever those are).
As programmers, we concentrate so much on the server/backend side of things that we often forget to measure performance from the Client's viewpoint. This presentation describes a bunch of techniques that can be used to speed up our websites.
This presentation is based on the original one from the author of the book ( 'Steve Souders' ), it's about his book titled 'High Performance Websites''
Performance Of Web Applications On Client MachinesCurelet Marius
Performance of Web applications on client machines. This paper refers to the performance of Web browsers and applications in general and of JavaScript code on the client machine.
A presentation from SEO Campixx Barcamp 2011 in Berlin. Web Performance Optimization is about making websites faster. Here i discussed different measures and show the impact on competitive advantage and possibly rankings on Google. Undeniably you can say that better performance leads to more sales and better usability in terms of bouncing rates. View image slides here: http://b0i.de/wpopresentation
With the growth of mobile devices, performance is now more important than ever. But the web is actually getting slower! Fight back by learning how to monitor performance, the critical rendering path and finding where to optimize.
Site speed is a ranking factor in Google, and for good reason. Visitors have a short attention span, and will quickly navigate away from a slow website, especially on mobile. This presentation covers essential tools and techniques for improving your load times and PageSpeed score, such as caching, image optimization, and plugin performance.
Ideal web page performance
How to maximize your content view with minimal attention span of your viewers?
Impact of page performance on Business metrics
Profiling a Http request
Browser Architecture, Critical Rendering Path
Applying FFSUx to get optimal webpage performance.
These are the slides from my talk "Your WebPerf Sucks" at HK CodeConf 2015 (http://hongkong.codeconf.io) at Science Park in Hong Kong, October 24th.
Web Performance is an important aspect of building for the web and this talk highlights different aspects of what is important and what can be done to improve web performance and build faster sites. While mentioning different aspects of possible improvements, the main focus lies on optimising the critical rendering path to get pages on the screen faster and what tools can help to do so.
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
This presentation builds upon Dave’s “Optimization for Mobile” chapter in Smashing Magazine’s “The Mobile Book.”
This talk was given at the Responsive Web Design Summit hosted by Environments for Humans.
How to migrate your blog from Wordpress to HubSpotVu Long Tran
Learn how to migrate your blog from WordPress to HubSpot. We will walk through concepts such as exporting blog from WordPress, importing blog into HubSpot and learning how to set redirects to ensure you don't lose any organic traffic.
There's no question about it. A slow website will cost you sales. WordPress website speed can sometimes be difficult to tackle.
We've put together a guide on improving your WordPress website loading times. Our WordPress speed guide is perfect for those who want to learn how to speed up their WordPress website in 2019.
Let us know what you think!
SearchLeeds 2018 - Bastian Grimm - Peak Ace - International site speed: Going...Branded3
Especially in a mobile-first world, fast loading websites are of utmost importance. Also, Google has been very vocal about anything web performance in the last few years and is pushing hard to innovate repeatedly. But performance is so much more! User satisfaction should be the main goal because expectations are clear: You’ve got two to three seconds maximum to deliver, so make it count. During Bastian's SearchLeeds 2018 talk he walked through various advanced topics around web performance optimisation going way beyond Accelerated Mobile Pages (and other short-term solutions) to make any website really, really fast.
Implementing a Responsive Image StrategyChris Love
Applications must implement responsive web design strategies today. However most developers are not experienced in responsive techniques. More over images have provided a difficult hurdle for developers and business stakeholders to make responsive.
A proper responsive web design strategy increases return on investment, reduces long term maintenance requirements and improves application performance. Images create many challenges in implementing responsive design.
This session will explain what responsive images are. How new web standards have enabled manageable responsive image practices. We will go over tooling and techniques to enable responsive images in your developer and line of business workflows.
When you leave this session you will have actionable knowledge of responsive images, techniques, tooling and workflow options you can apply to your projects now.
How to connect your subdomains to HubSpotVu Long Tran
Learn how to connect your subdomains and domains to HubSpot. We will walk through concepts such as subdomains and DNS to help you understand why and how we connect your domain name to HubSpot (or any other website hosting provider).
Here is the presentation from Dave Jesch, a Wordpress Plugin Developer, who walked our Meetup.com group through an installation of Wordpress and respective SEO plugins. Dave actually created two plugins linked to from the Slideshare for Google Analytics and Facebook integration. Visit http://www.diyonlinesolutions.com/ to learn more about Dave Jesch.
WPblog's Ultimate WordPress Guide to Boost Your Website Performance Jessica Ervin
Your website performance is crucial to its success. It is essential that you analyse your website’s speed and take critical steps to improve performance metrics. If you don’t, If you don’t, not only do you lose visitors, but you might be losing a lot of business as well.
For this reason, WPblog has released a complete guide on WordPress performance optimization where you can learn how to analyse your website speed, and improve its performance.
Source: https://www.wpblog.com/ebook-library/wordpress-performance-optimization
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Progressive enhancement sounds practical, but not for your current project, right? Good news: you’re wrong!
In this session, Aaron will debunk the myths that often preclude individuals and organizations from embracing progressive enhancement and demonstrate solid techniques for applying progressive enhancement in your work.
By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with
* a better sense of the devices people are using to access the Web,
* a framework for envisioning experience as a continuum, and
* a solid understanding of how to improve the accessibility and reach of your Web projects.
Come find out why progressive enhancement isn’t just for “content” sites (whatever those are).
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Whoever said patience is a virtue certainly never had to contend with modern-day websites. In this digital era, speed is everything, and failing to meet the critical 2-second load time could cost you big in terms of ranking and web traffic. If you made it your mission to boost your website performance this year, here is why you should start at the source.
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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A Survey of Techniques for Maximizing LLM Performance.pptx
Is your website's speed letting you down?
1. Published by SEO Juice
http://www.seo-juice.co.uk
06/11/11
Page speed
The purpose of this article is to show you what page speed is all about, inform you of the
tools out there for monitoring your site’s performance and how to speed up your website.
Introduction
Google announced some time ago that a page’s load speed would become a ranking factor
in the SERPs. We are not sure how much relevance this criteria actually has in Google’s
overall ranking algorithm, but it is always a good idea to have your website loading as fast
as possible, to give your visitors a great experience on your website.
In my opinion a webpage has to load within 2-3 seconds, Google say about 1.5!!! (How!!!
Just text only and nothing else, get real!).
Let’s say the average website visitor has only a 1MB broadband Internet connection, (if
you’re still on dialup then I’m sorry, you’re not average).
The maximum download rate for a 1MB connection is 125kbps. This means for your website
to load within 1 second, that’s how big all the assets on your site need to be. If you want
your site to load within 2 seconds, then you are allowed 250kbps, 375kbps for 3 seconds
and so on. If a visitor has a 2MB broadband Internet connection then they get your page,
theoretically, 50% faster.
Now, there are 2 very good tools for testing the speed of your website, they also give you
very valuable information on improvements to the structure of your site . These 2 tools are
Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow.
Both these tools perform similar tasks but they also have unique options that are not to be
ignored.
Right, let’s get on with optimising pages shall we?
2. Install Google page speed
If you are going to monitor the speed of your website then one of the best ways to do this
is to use the Google Page Speed plugin for Firefox. To do this you will need to:
• Open your Firefox web browser.
• Ensure that you have Firebug installed. Available from here if you need it.
• Login to your Google account.
• Go to Webmaster Tools and select your website from the list (You may need to add it
first).
• Click on the Labs option in the left hand menu and choose Site Performance.
If there is data available then you will be presented with a graph, similar to the one below.
This graph above shows you your sites load times for the past 6 months. Once you have
read this article, you should be able to decrease the load times of your pages by at least
25%!
Using Google page speed
To start using Google page speed in Firefox, you need to do the following.
• Click on the Firebug symbol in Firefox (Top right corner in FF6).
• Choose the Page Speed tab in the bottom panel.
• Click the Analyse Performance button to start the speed tests.
You will first see a page speed score. Anything over 85 is good. Looking down the list you
3. will see red and yellow icons, these are big areas for improvement, fix these first if you can.
Some things might be out of your control like GZip compression and browser caching.
Measuring page load times
To start off with, choose the homepage of your website to work on or a page with lots of
assets and do the following.
• Open your website’s homepage in Firefox.
• Open Firebug and click on the Net tab.
• Press CTRL+F5 and an un-cached version of your site will be seen.
• In the bottom right of your browser you will see the speed in which it took the page to
load.
• My example speed test page is here
• http://www.seo-juice.co.uk/speed.php
• There are ~465KBs of assets and it took ~1.60 seconds to load
• Press F5 to see a cached version of the page. The load speed is now ~700ms, based on
standard webpage caching principles.
• In the timeline below you will also see all the assets loading and how long they take to
load.
• Make a note of how long your page takes to load. Initial load and cached loading. Use
these later after you have optimised the page.
4. Shrinking your assets
The next things to look at are the green ticks that have a small arrow next to them.
A big saving in file sizes can be made by fixing these issues. See below to see how you can
speed up your site faster than you think.
Image optimisation
• Click the small arrow to the right of the green tick and you will see a list of images
which can be optimised.
• Page Speed is fantastic here as it has already converted the image to the lowest size
for you and you can download it by clicking on the Save as link. How cool is that!
• Just upload the image to your server and that’s 1 less problem to deal with and probably
5kb saved in just 1 image.
• Rinse and repeat for all the images it has concerns for. Some sites with lots of images
could see a saving of around 40kb from just this one simple fix.
• Also, any images on webpages must have a Height and Width value attached to each.
This allows for faster render and drawing of the images on screen. Without these 2
values, the browser has to do the math on the images, slowing the page load time
down even further.
• To make your images load even faster, any image hover events that require an image
should be placed into 1 image as an image sprite. This requires less HTTP requests as
well as slightly smaller image assets overall.
5. Minifying CSS & Javascript
This is a good technique to employ as your CSS file sizes will decrease, but the content of
them will become extremely hard to read as all the white space and line breaks would have
been removed. Always keep a readable backup of your files to work with.
There are some free online tools to minify your CSS and JS below
• http://www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/
• http://www.minifyjs.com/javascript-compressor/
Page load errors
Page load errors will decrease your load times and are one of the easiest problems to fix.
Inside the Net tab in Firebug, any references to missing assets are shown in red. Well, what
are you waiting for? Sort them out!
I performed an experiment on my speed.php page with 1 missing css reference, 118ms
was wasted trying to find an asset that did not exist.
I did the same thing with 10 missing references and the page speed was ¼ second slower.
Not much but add that to the time saved from images, JS & CSS load times and your page
load times could come down between 1 & 2 seconds.
On the web, 2 seconds of waiting is a long time. If only UK call centres would adopt this way
of thinking:-)
Reduce HTTP requests with caching
If assets like images and CSS on your website very really change then you can add all or a
selection of the following caching options to your .htaccess file (Apache Server only). Please
be warned that one mistake in your .htaccess file will break your website so be careful!
If you make a change on your site then CTRL+F5 will need to be pressed a few times to see
6. the new assets loaded. If you wanted to ensure that your site visitors saw the new assets,
then you would have to upload them with a different file name and then link to this one.
You can copy the code below, AT YOUR OWN RISK, into your .htaccess file to allow assets
to be cached, thus making your website load faster on subsequent visits.
The number 604800 is equal to 7 days
(1 day = 86400 [60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours] )
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A300
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A604800
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A604800
ExpiresByType image/png A604800
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A604800
ExpiresByType text/plain A604800
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A604800
ExpiresByType video/x-flv A604800
ExpiresByType application/pdf A604800
ExpiresByType text/html A604800
ExpiresByType image/ico A604800
</IfModule>
Page speed for Google Chrome
Page speed is also available for Google Chrome, although it is in beta version at the time of
writing so use it at your OWN RISK. Details on how to install it are below.
• Open up a new tab in Google Chrome and type “about:flags”.
• Scroll down to Experimental Extension APIs and click on Enable.
• Go to the page here and click the install link.
• Once installed, click the spanner symbol in the top right, choose Tools > Developer
Tools.
• Welcome to Page Speed for Google Chrome!
7. Installing YSlow
Yahoo YSlow is another cool page speed tool that should not be ignored. Installation guide
below.
• Go to http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/. There are versions for Firefox & Chrome.
• Download and install the version you need.
• YSlow is accessed from Firebug in Firefox.
• YSlow is accessed from the YSlow icon in the top right tool bar in Google Chrome.
I won’t go into much detail here as I have covered all the main concepts above with Google
Page Speed but YSlow will give you a grade for your webpage and tell you what’s wrong
with it.
To get a quick report go to YSlow > Tools > Printable View. Print it out and work through
correcting the issues.
The graph below on the right just goes to show what optimisation and caching can do to
the amount of assets that have to be downloaded when your webpages are accessed.
Don’t sacrifice quality for speed
Don’t sacrifice quality too much and lose that visual impact, especially if you are a
photographer. If things may be slow for the user, set this expectation at the start somewhere,
(“Hi I’m a photographer, I have lots to show, please give me 30 seconds to sort my stuff out,
it will be worth the wait, I promise). Set the expectation from the start and raise awareness.
8. Published by SEO Juice
http://www.seo-juice.co.uk
06/11/11
Thought for you. If I told you to wait for 30 seconds for “SOMETHING” and you got it after 30
seconds, you would be happy. Yes, you got what you expected.
But, If you sat there for 30 seconds, with no warning, waiting for a website to load, would
you be happy at the end of those 30 seconds?
Website widget overload
All the website widgets, adverts and social media “like” icons all slow your website down.
Maintain the right balance of these as these are useful for exposure across many social
mediums that can bring you that all important traffic.
Track page speed in Analytics
In the new version of Google Analytics, you can track the average load time of your pages
by adding the line below in red to your Google Analytics tracking code.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-YOURID-X’]);
_gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]);
_gaq.push([‘_trackPageLoadTime’]);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;
ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-
analytics.com/ga.js’;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
To access your page speed figures in Google Analytic, follow the steps below.
• Log into Google Analytics.
• From the home page, select your website.
• Click Content in the left hand menu. and then click Site Speed. Viola!