Understanding YSlow: What Matters; What Doesn’t

YSlow by Yahoo! is a great little plugin for Firefox and Firebug. It looks at a page and uses Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site to tell you how to make the page load faster. At least that is the idea behind it. In practice, however, not all of its suggestions are useful or even meaningful.

Let’s break it down and see what is worth the blood, sweat, and tears, and what is not. (Read more…)

Most Popular Web Hosts in June 2008


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Host Review Storage Transfer Price
1 2  BlueHost   read review   unlimited   unlimited   $6.95 
 2   4   HostMonster   read review   unlimited   unlimited   $6.95 
 3   -   HostGator   read review   350 GB   3,500 GB   $6.95 
 4   2   ANHosting   read review   500 GB   5,000 GB   $6.95 
 5   3   DreamHost   read review   190 GB   1,900 GB   $7.95 
 6   6   EasyCGI   read review   350 GB   3,500 GB   $7.96 
 7   8   Yahoo!   read review   unlimited   unlimited   $11.95 
 8   -   inMotion   review out of date   unlimited   unlimited   $6.95 
 9   7   midPhase   read review   200 GB   3,000 GB   $7.95 
 10   5   Lunarpages   read review   1,500 GB   15,000 GB   $6.95 

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