Google ups the stakes for web developers
Today Google released Page Speed which is a competitor to YSlow. Both are Firebug add-ons for the wildly popular Firefox.
The good news is it looks like Page Speed does everything that YSlow does and then some! On my first run Page Speed warned me about using descendant selectors in my CSS and suggested that I could better compress some images on the page. Better yet, it linked me to the suggested compressed version of the image so I could simply save it off and upload it.
Overall if you are a web developer it behooves you to have both YSlow and Page Speed installed in your Firefox so you can always make sure you are delivering the fastest user experience on the web.
Posted by Andrew Riley on Jun. 05, 2009