Posts Tagged ‘YSlow’

YSlow and Compress Components with GZip

With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Compress components with gzip. When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component. Here is how to improve your site’s speed a bit – with two huge caveats:

You web server [...]

YSlow and Configure Entity Tags (ETags)

With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Entity Tags or ETags.  When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component.  Then you click on the “read more” link to learn how to fix the issue.  But when you [...]

Speed Up Your Website or Blog with YSlow

Brandon and I just got back from WordCamp in San Francisco. Boy howdy did we learn a lot of great tips and tricks for WordPress (and met a lot of great new people!).  One of the speakers I saw was Steve Souders, an originator of something called YSlow. So, here’s the first tip I’ll clue [...]