posted by evan
on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 12:20
Site performance is a factor in users' perception of the quality of your site and in search engine ranking so do not ignore this aspect. There are several tools available to test the loading speed of your pages.
Pagespeed from google is my favorite. It is available as a browser extension or as an online service. Due to the announcement of the closing of Google Labs it may be going away. Hopefully they will keep it going.
Yslow from Yahoo is another alternative but appears to only be available as a browser plug-in.
There are others, as well as ones that can be installed on the server and can pinpoint down to which line of code is slowing things, but these are the easiest.
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