12 Tools To Decrease Website Load Times

[nickb]

http://www.dailyartisan.com/news/12-tools-to-increase-website-speed/

[mtw]

wrong title imho; seems to me it's a list of monitoring & testing tools than tools which actually decrease website load times.

(i was expecting thing like gzip, use of cdns, memcache, js compressors etc)

[river_styx]

13. Don't use Rails.

[jamongkad → river_styx]

You're kidding right? with all the innovation I've been hearing about Ruby, you would think Rails might get a speed boost...

[river_styx → jamongkad]

Yes, I was kidding.

[lallysingh]

Wow, how did they miss FireBug?

[_tggb → lallysingh]

Might I suggest you do more then skim the big red words and instead read the paragraphs below said big red words before commenting. The first thing on the list is YSlow, followed by the text"…which makes use of the popular web development tool, Firebug…"

Also, I'm partial to Safari/WebKit's Web Inspector. But thats just me.