Comments on: YSlow Shootout: Social News Sites

By: Dan W

Dan W — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:57:41 +0000

Putting JS at the end of the body is marked by YSlow for a reason- Scripts being loaded block all rendering until they are parsed, one at a time.

By: Joe Petviashvili

Joe Petviashvili — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:16 +0000

jaanix is doing fine too: better than reddit and a bit worse than hacker news:

Performance Grade: B (80) Expand All Collapse All
A 1. Make fewer HTTP requests
B 2. Use a CDN
F 3. Add an Expires header
A 4. Gzip components
A 5. Put CSS at the top
A 6. Put JS at the bottom
A 7. Avoid CSS expressions
n/a 8. Make JS and CSS external
A 9. Reduce DNS lookups
A 10. Minify JS
A 11. Avoid redirects
A 12. Remove duplicate scripts
A 13. Configure ETags

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:08:07 +0000

It appears the ad servers are causing a lot of the problems. How about comparing the ad servers and how they impact performance when added to your web page?