YSlow 0.9.3 Released
One change, excluding beacons from the score, will boost everyone's grade a little bit. Everyone that uses some sort of 1×1px image based analytics package, that is. Me? My home page gained 4 points (up to an 82 :))*
The other important update, to me at least, means that I can fill out the missing companies from the YSlow survey I did a couple of weeks back. There were a few sites that simply wouldn't load the score. That bug appears to be fixed, so the handful of sites that escaped my earlier scrutiny will now go under the lens.
YSlow 0.9.3 Release with Firefox 3 Support (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
*I also started serving gzipped pages this week, which should have helped the score a little bit. Actually, cached and gzipped, which, scores aside, should speed things up considerably. With this system in place, there's less work done on the server for most requests since all the tough stuff is done once and saved in the cached version and there's significantly less to download because of the compression- my home page saves nearly 10kb, from ~13kb down to 4.6kb. The total page weight of my home page is now down to 52kb.
Faster Rob! Faster!