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big ups to the folks at Yahoo! for YSlow for Firebug, a Firefox/firebug add-on that provides a wealth of great information about enhancing site performance.

Here’s the sample output from this site’s home page*:

I’ve increased my score from 62-82 just today. I enabled expire headers for my images with this bit of htaccess magic:

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A300
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType text/html A300

and turned off etags with this bit:

FileETag None
Header unset ETag

I’m looking into gzip compression and using Amazon S3 to get me over the 90+ level

I love messing around with this place.

*the blog totally sucks scoring 51. I’ve got a million little things running here, so that’s not a surprise. Until my blog goes from 10-15% of my traffic to something more like 50% I’m not going to worry about it.