There’s a little tool I read about recently called YSlow which analyzes the way your web-page loads and gives you a score along with simple tips for how to improve. It’s a plug-in for Firefox integrated with the fabulous Firebug extension.

I downloaded it tonight and ran it on Stikis. Stikis got an F. I feel a bit embarassed by that.

I guess the good news is that the tips listed are all pretty straight-forward to implement. I wonder how much of an impact they will have on the performance? To have a point of comparison, we can look at Firebug’s ‘Net’ report. It tells me that the version of Stikis I have running on my development machine takes about 2.5 seconds to load. I’ll report back as I implement the tips and we can see how much of a difference they make.