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August 22, 2007
Over on Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood writes YSlow: Yahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems and makes some very good points about not taking YSlow results too literally--at least not without thinking about what you're doing.
But before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world. And Rich's company, Topix, is no slouch either-- they're in the top 2,000. It's only natural that Rich would be keenly interested in Yahoo's advice on how to scale a website to millions of unique users per day.
That's good advice when it comes to following any set of recommendations. YSlow was designed for Yahoo's goals and will likely become more general over time. Take it's advice with a grain of salt, just like you should anyone's advice.
The comments on that post contain some useful nuggets as well, including some discussion from Steve Souders and the YSlow creators.
And, if you haven't already seen it, check out our Introducing YSlow screencast which was posted about here.
Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network
Posted at August 22, 2007 7:36 AM
Is there something you need to set so that YSlow does not complain about "about:config" (my default new tab URL) not being a valid website?
Otherwise YSlow seems pretty nice, even if – ironically – it is pretty slow at determining which pages are slow
Posted by: Anand Kumria at August 23, 2007 4:18 PM
It appears that this blog's RSS feed is broken. Pointing my browser at http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/index.rdf results in a redirect to http://developer.yahoo.com/notfound.html
Posted by: Michael Burton at September 12, 2007 11:21 PM
Weird. The auto-discovery tag points to:
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/index.xml
So where did you get the index.rdf link from?
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at September 13, 2007 1:43 PM
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