I’ve linked to Steve Sauders‘ webcasts on website performance optimization before. Here’s another. Turns out that he’s co-chairing the O’Reilly Velocity conference in June.

Posted October 23, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: Steve Souders, webcast, website performance. Be the first one.

Hearing Steve Souders at WordCamp last week got me thinking about website performance, so I went looking for more. The slides from his WordCamp talk are online, but he gave a similar talk at Google I/O which got videotaped and posted richer detail than his slides alone will ever reveal.
Also on his blog: Use the [...]

Posted August 25, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: performance, Steve Souders, web, web development. One Comment.

Steve Souders: 10% of the problem is server performance, 90% of problem is browser activity after the main html is downloaded. He wrote the book and developed YSlow, so he should know.
JavaScripts are downloaded serially and block other activity. Most JavaScript functions aren’t used at OnLoad. We could split the JS and only load essential [...]

Posted August 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: javascript, optimization, performance, Steve Souders, website. 2 Comments.