WordPress.com page speed

Just now I installed Page Speed by Google. It is similar to YSlow from Yahoo!. On analyzing the Page Speed report I could not find the page size and time taken to load the page details that you get in YSlow.

It is pretty simple to use:

  1. Visit a page for eg: http://wordpress.com/
  2. Invoke Firebug panel
  3. Select Page Speed tab and click Analyze Performance
  4. That’s it the report is generated

WordPress.com speed report suggests few improvements like:

  1. Browser Caching
  2. Minimize DNS lookup
  3. Minimize JavaScript
  4. Optimize Images
  5. Optimize the order of styles and scripts
  6. Use efficient CSS selectors

Refer Page Speed help to understand its usage, options and the report.

Srikanth Ramu

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