High Performance Web Sites and YSlow
Why Hacker News recommends it
Praised as solid, research-backed advice on front-end web performance.
What it is
A Google Tech Talk on Yahoo's 14 rules for faster web pages and the YSlow tool. It covers front-end practices like avoiding @import and fixing ETags, with live analysis of popular sites.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2009 to 2009.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec teej · 2009-02 · on “Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic”
[this video] That link is a talk on YSlow, a tool you can use to lower download speed, render time, and perceived load time. It's awesome.
Strong rec patio11 · 2009-07 · on “Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it”
Watch the YSlow guys and be enlightened. Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold. They are easily the best "Follow these simple directions and you will make money" technical material I've ever seen. video of talk: [this video] slides of another: [LINK]
Cites nop · 2009-05 · on “Stanford Online: High Performance Web Sites [video]”
Hes given two talks at google on the subject that the course covers: [this video] and [LINK] Silverlight or not I think most of will live without all the secret knowledge contained in those videos unless we want to fork out a $600 tuition fee to see more than three of them according to: [LINK]