YSlow update - offers more complete picture
Friday, December 21st, 2007Yahoo! released version 0.9 of YSlow recently. The release notes offer the highlights, but this blog entry by one of the developers provides more details.
I haven’t had a chance to spend much time with the new release, but it promises to address what I saw as the biggest shortcoming of prior releases - that it only crawled the DOM and didn’t capture network traffic. The new version promises to do both, providing a much more complete picture.
I was a bit disappointed to see that a bug I had reported in prior versions still remains - YSlow falsely identifies redirects. For example, today on www.aol.com there are 3 redirects, but YSlow identified 20 - the other 17 are listed as “redirects to <blank>” .
Nevertheless, a great tool.
