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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

August 7, 2007

YSlow Podcast Interview and Screencast Demo

Editor's note: Unfortunately, the original video and audio files have gone missing. Please check out the YSlow 2.0 screencast from April 2009 for an introduction to the most recent release.

During the week of the YSlow release, Dan Theurer and I sat down with Steve Souders (Chief Performance Yahoo) to discuss web site performance and YSlow.

The result of that conversation (and some Camtasia learning on my part) is an audio interview and a video demo for your listening and viewing pleasure.

The 8:51 audio recording (8MB MP3) captures the background discussion, including the need for YSlow, how it came to be, performance best practices, FireBug integration, and so on.

The 8:22 video screencast is a continuation of the discussion where we run YSlow against www.yahoo.com to get an idea of how YSlow works. You can jump right in and watch the video without listening to the podcast, but you'll miss a few references from earlier in the discussion.

We also "filmed" two other demos: one using my blog (it gets a "D") and another using the YDN web site (it doesn't score well either). Look for those to appear soon.

Enjoy...

Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network

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Comments

Nice tool, ty, developers. Very usefull to optimize pages!

Posted by: kikaha at September 25, 2007 7:35 AM

Well, I was gonna listen to the 8:51 audio recording (8MB MP3) file, but I'm not gonna install a silo player to do it. Come on JZ & the rest of the Y! gang!

Posted by: BillyG at October 5, 2007 8:42 PM

Silo player? What's that mean?

Does your computer really have no facility for playing back MP3s?

Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at October 8, 2007 9:32 AM

This is very cool. Keep up the great work over at YDN, this is one area Yahoo! is doing a great job with and showing some industry leadership. Looking forward to the next Hack Day back in the states.

Posted by: Jonathan Andrew Wolter at December 4, 2007 12:02 AM

I have just used on my blog and find out what was slowing it and fix it, thanks guys.

Posted by: homaid at January 10, 2008 3:46 AM

Dziekuje bardzo Pan Zawodny. Once more you showed that information is the most valuable commodity on the world. Really useful, I´m looking forward to more help out of you head to optimize our website.

Posted by: Billigflüge Kanada at August 12, 2008 6:45 AM

WOW, great tool! Just found out about it and I think it's great. It'll make life much easier! Already let some colleagues know about it.

Cheers!

Posted by: Claudius at August 20, 2008 11:14 AM

VERY interesting and useful!! Much appreciated!!

Posted by: Nick at January 27, 2009 5:19 PM