howard chen wrote:
Hello all,
As you might already know, YSlow is a tool to check website performance, I just run a test against: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Results is quite surprising, Grade F (47). Of course lower mark does not always means bad, but there are some room for improvement, e.g.
- Minify JS (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/ajax.js?179)
We've discussed this already. It's not happening.
- Enable GZip compression (e.g.
Yes this is possible. But there are two ways of doing it and Brion thinks it should be done the hard way ;)
- Add expire header (e.g.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Commons-logo-31px.png)
You know this is a wiki, right?
- Don't put CSS out of the <head />
You mean style attributes? That's an editorial issue.
By do this, it should save some money on bandwidth, as well as to provide a better user experience.
Are you saying we're slow?
-- Tim Starling