[thelist] objects and site speed

[ben morrison]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
> Has anyone got any data or thoughts correlating objects on a page and
> site speed?  I have a couple template sites that I have spent untold
> hours reducing the number of objects, combining CSS, etc in theory to
> improve site speed.  It feels like it works but I have not collected any
> hard evidence. Is it too incremental to matter?  Along these lines I
> have started writing some FAQ's regarding how to do trim them down.  I
> commonly use www.websiteoptimization.com to check sites. -Bob


Have you looked at YSLOW?

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Also the net panel in firebug can be useful as a guide

http://www.getfirebug.com/net.html

ben
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Ben Morrison