Google Page Speed and Yslow 2.0
Posted By Mike Hopley On June 15, 2009 @ 12:52 pm Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s Yslow [1], Google have published Page Speed [2], a tool they have been using to optimize their own web pages. Now you can use it too. Page Speed is similar to Yslow in several respects: it’s an add-on to Firebug; it analyses your pages according to a set of performance rules; it draws attention to rules that you score badly on; and it also provides a page activity monitor. For each rule, Page Speed gives you a general indication of how well you’re doing, in the form of a green tick (good), red circle (bad), or amber triangle (indifferent). You can also hover over a rule to see your percentage score. Page Speed does not provide an overall percentage score, but it does arrange the results in order of importance. Since my previous article about Yslow 1.0 [3], Yslow 2.0 has been released; this includes a fu - Read More
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