The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup

Here’s another talk I watched recently on how to speed up your web sites. This one focuses on Javascript, and offers techniques to make your scripts run faster — or at least appear to run faster:

I watched a great presentation from the Google I/O conference yesterday.  It’s by Steve Souders, creator of the YSlow plugin for Firefox, and he’s talking about making your web sites load faster.  He offers some sneaky little techniques to make browsers load your scripts in parallel, among other things.

Want to shave another second off your page load time?  Watch the video & slides for Even Faster Web Sites.

Souders recommends an tool called IBM Page Detailer which creates charts showing how much time your browser spent downloading & processing each part of the page (HTML, images, Javascript, etc.).  It only runs on Windows, sorry.

If you decide to do automated unit testing of your web applications, this presentation from Google Tech Talks covers ways to make your tests more complete and efficient: