Optimize your webpage speed

by Nicolas Ruflin, Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Almost for every webpage it's essential to improve the loading speed because this is one important part of the user experience. A lot of people today have broadband so loading big images or JavaScript files seems to be less a problem. But keep in mind that still all around the world people are surfing with 56KBit/s and nowadays more and more people are accessing the internet over there mobile phone with EDGE or 3G.

There exist some nice tools to get a report about you're webpage speed and what you could optimize.

• YSlow from Yahoo (Firefox Plugin integrated with Firebug)
• Page Speed from Google (Firebug Plugin)

This two tools are very similar. Yahoo also offers a very extensive list of "Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site". There are a lot of small improvements that are also worth to implement on small webpages. But for some it's necessary to change the server configuration or to work with subdomains.

Related Links

• Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
• YSlow
• Page Speed