Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow

Stoyan writes "Steve Souders, performance architect at Yahoo, announced today the public release of YSlow — a Firefox extension that adds a new panel to Firebug and reports page's performance score in addition to other performance-related features. Here is a review plus helpful tips how to make the scoring system match your needs.

/. gets a D

[LoadWB]

Interesting utility. Slashdot gets a D on the homepage, F on a comments page. Many media sites score Fs, mostly thanks to numerous ad and cookie sites.

Sure but

[loconet]

I bet it doesn't actually tell you your site is being /.ed

Re:/. gets a D

[JuanCarlosII]

Even better than that, http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ [yahoo.com] gets a D for performance.

Re:Another tool

[danbert8]

I think you slashdotted a website efficiency report of Slashdot. Shouldn't that cause a black hole or something?

Re:first post

[Rod Beauvex]

Don't you mean Slowverlords? :D

F: You are co-located at 365 Main.

[jea6]

F: You are co-located at 365 Main.

Friendlier Reporting

[HitekHobo]

I think I'd prefer it to use a bit more realistic reporting. How about: 1) Your web developer is a complete incompetent. 2) Buy more hardware, tightwad. 3) There is no need to add every script plugin you come across. 4) Animated gif's are annoying as well as slow to load. 5) Yes, it does take time to download and render an entire book in html.

Just the start of their new plugin scanners

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YSucks - reveals why your site sucks.
YMe - translates your site into emo-speak.