Hello,
I would like to write some words concerning YSlow. It’s a tool which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.
Originally, it was an add-on developped by Yahoo! for the Firebug extension in Firefox. It is also widely used by webmasters and developers.
So, after analysis, YSlow assigns several grades (I think from ‘A’ to ‘Z’) and supplies good pratices and advices to optimize your site.
For example, in Chrome, YSlow is accessible via an icon on the left of address bar:
… then, in the newly opened window, click on the button ‘Run Test’:
…after all, YSlow displays the results of analysis with the notation of several points:
… for example, we have a grade “F” on “Add Expires headers” point:
… more, YSlow describes the problem and optimisation to do:
Web pages are becoming increasingly complex with more scripts, style sheets, images, and Flash on them. A first-time visit to a page may require several HTTP requests to load all the components. By using Expires headers these components become cacheable, which avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. Expires headers are most often associated with images, but they can and should be used on all page components including scripts, style sheets, and Flash.
There are also others tabs:
- the “Components” tab supplies the number of components (document, js, css, image…) and their size/weight in the analyzed page through a table:
In this example, we could see that the page has a total of 30 components and a total weight of 440.4K bytes. More, a javascript component with a size of 1264.0K has a size of 381.5K with the GZIP compression (used in the exchanges).
- the “Statistics” tab is interesting because it supplies charts concerning the analyzed page:
That’s all!!!
Best regards,
Huseyin OZVEREN