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YSlow

Many people still often argue about what is a perfect aesthetic website. But from a technical standpoint, speed is the key to the success of that website. Therefore, if you want to increase the number of visitors to your website, prioritize stability and speed first. In the following article, introduce to you a great support tool, which is Yslow, which can help users to analyze, accurately detect errors or problems affecting the speed of website operation.

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You can search and install YSlow through Firefox's Add-ons Manager search function or visit the address above:

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After installation, you will see the program's icon appear below as shown below, click on it to activate:

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But note that you need to install Firebug before YSlow, and YSlow currently cannot work with Firefox 4 beta:

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Once everything is fully set, press the YSlow icon when accessing the website to be analyzed, the program will open as a new tab of Firebug , then select Run Test :

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Here are a few rules to apply depending on the model of the website to check, for regular blog sites, we should choose Small Site or Blog :

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Or edit through the Edit function beside the menu of the rules, then you can add or remove related components. If you hover over the components, the system will display all relevant information:

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Test results:

After clicking the Run Test button , Yslow will analyze that website. The process is quite quick:

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See more details via the link Read More :

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Or sort the results by specific categories:

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Next to the Grade tab is Components , this is where the list of factors that negatively affect the performance of the website:

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Besides, the Statistics tab displays results via graphs and specific data:

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Tools:

After the end of the analysis process, the next thing is to fix and repair.YSlow provides a number of tools to improve website performance. But keep in mind that YSlow only gives suggestions, not directly fixes those errors:

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For example, when clicking on the All JS Minified link you will see details about the specific code. Then log into the admin account and edit or replace those files:

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But the most useful tool that can be used here is smush.it, the application that optimizes capacity and quality on the page just analyzed, so that you will improve somewhat the download speed of the website:

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All you have to do is click on the All Smush.it link and wait for the process to finish. Then use the image file of smush.it instead of the current image file:

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At the same time, this tool also supports upload and optimization of photos from your computer, very simple and convenient:

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But note that Smush.it will automatically rename the image file with the + sign to replace the space in the file name. If you want to refer and learn all the functions of Yslow , please visit here.

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