Steve Souders
Faster, faster, faster
On the web
- Website: stevesouders.com
- Twitter: @souders
Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites and created YSlow. He is co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly. He recently taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.
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Web Performance Optimisation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
The last few years have seen a bevy of case studies from Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft, Mozilla, Shopzilla, Netflix, and others testifying that making web sites faster drives traffic to the site, improves the user experience, increases revenue, and reduces operating costs. The VC community has caught on and are backing a number of web performance startups. All of this has culminated in the emergence of a new industry: Web Performance Optimization (WPO). Join Steve Souders as he recounts the evolution of WPO and lays out the biggest challenge for creating faster web sites: JavaScript.